Bill Text: NY A07338 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes limitations on newborn screening for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-20 - substituted by s6542 [A07338 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07338-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7338

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to newborn screening
          for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (j)  of subdivision 1 of section 2500-a of the
     2  public health law, as amended by chapter 70 of  the  laws  of  2022,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (j) Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency [using a quantitative
     5  enzymatic  test  or  other  diagnostic  test in cases where: the newborn
     6  infant presents with hemolytic anemia, hemolytic jaundice, or  early-on-
     7  set  increasing  neonatal  jaundice,  that is, jaundice (bilirubin level
     8  greater than fortieth percentile for age in hours) persisting beyond the
     9  day of birth through the week after birth; the newborn infant  has  been
    10  admitted to the hospital for jaundice following birth; or the biological
    11  parent  of the newborn infant indicates a family, racial, or ethnic risk
    12  of  glucose-6-phosphate  dehydrogenase  deficiency,   including   having
    13  significant African, Asian, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry].
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10869-02-3