Bill Text: NY A08919 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires primary care physicians to post certain information detailing how parents or guardians of infants and children can subscribe to the United States consumer product safety commission's e-mail subscription lists.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-08 - RECOMMITTED TO HEALTH [A08919 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A08919-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8919--B
                                                               Cal. No. 379
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 4, 2012
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. DINOWITZ, PAULIN, P. RIVERA, JAFFEE, ROBINSON,
         MAISEL, STEVENSON, MILLMAN,  GIBSON,  CRESPO,  JOHNS,  JACOBS,  GALEF,
         MENG,  WEPRIN, MOYA, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BOYLAND,
         CALHOUN, COOK, ENGLEBRIGHT, J. MILLER, MONTESANO, NOLAN, ORTIZ -- read
         once and referred to the Committee on Health -- reference  changed  to
         the   Committee  on  Consumer  Affairs  and  Protection  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee -- passed by Assembly and delivered to  the  Senate,
         recalled  from  the  Senate,  vote reconsidered, bill amended, ordered
         reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  primary
         care  physicians  to post certain information detailing how parents or
         guardians of infants and children can subscribe to the  United  States
         consumer product safety commission's e-mail subscription lists
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Article 25 of the public health law is amended by adding  a
    2  new title 9 to read as follows:
    3                                  TITLE IX
    4                       RECALL SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
    5  SECTION 2599-E. PHYSICIAN POSTING OF RECALL SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION.
    6    S 2599-E. PHYSICIAN POSTING OF RECALL SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION.  1. AS
    7  USED  IN  THIS  SECTION,  "PRIMARY  CARE  PHYSICIAN"  MEANS  A PHYSICIAN
    8  SPECIALIST IN THE FIELD OF FAMILY PRACTICE, GENERAL PEDIATRICS,  PRIMARY
    9  CARE  INTERNAL  MEDICINE  OR PRIMARY CARE OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY, WHO
   10  PROVIDES COORDINATED PRIMARY CARE SERVICES.
   11    2. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REQUIRE THAT EVERY  PRIMARY  CARE  PHYSICIAN
   12  POST  IN  A PLACE OR PLACES, CLEARLY VISIBLE TO ALL PERSONS, ADJACENT TO
   13  OR NEAR THE LOCATION SUCH PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN HAS DESIGNATED FOR  THE
   14  RECEIPT  OF  PAYMENT,  AN  INFORMATIONAL  NOTICE.  SUCH  NOTICE SHALL BE
   15  DESIGNED BY THE COMMISSIONER IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SECRETARY OF  STATE
   16  AND  SHALL  CONTAIN  INFORMATION  DETAILING  HOW PARENTS OR GUARDIANS OF
   17  INFANTS AND CHILDREN CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE UNITED STATES CONSUMER PRODUCT
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13834-07-2
       A. 8919--B                          2
    1  SAFETY COMMISSION'S E-MAIL SUBSCRIPTION LISTS TO RECEIVE CONSUMER  PROD-
    2  UCT  RECALL  AND  SAFETY  NEWS BY E-MAIL FROM THE UNITED STATES CONSUMER
    3  PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION AND SUCH OTHER MATERIAL AS DEEMED  APPROPRIATE
    4  BY THE COMMISSIONER. SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO PRIMARY CARE
    5  PHYSICIANS  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  ON ITS WEBSITE AND SHALL BE PROVIDED IN
    6  ENGLISH, AS WELL AS  IN  THE  SIX  LANGUAGES  OTHER  THAN  ENGLISH  MOST
    7  FREQUENTLY  SPOKEN  IN  THE STATE ACCORDING TO THE LATEST AVAILABLE DATA
    8  FROM THE UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU AND UPON  REQUEST  FROM  A  PRIMARY
    9  CARE  PHYSICIAN,  ANY  OTHER  LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF
   10  PEOPLE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY SERVED BY SUCH PRIMARY CARE  PHYSICIAN.    A
   11  PRIMARY  CARE  PHYSICIAN  SHALL  POST  SUCH NOTICE IN ENGLISH AND IN ANY
   12  OTHER LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WITHIN THE COMMU-
   13  NITY HE OR SHE SERVES.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   15  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
   16  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
   17  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
   18  authorized and directed to be made and completed by the commissioner  of
   19  health on or before such effective date.