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

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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]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8919
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 4, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Health
       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.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
    2  2997-e to read as follows:
    3    S 2997-E. PHYSICIAN POSTING OF RECALL SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION.  1. AS
    4  USED IN  THIS  SECTION,  "PRIMARY  CARE  PHYSICIAN"  MEANS  A  PHYSICIAN
    5  SPECIALIST  IN THE FIELD OF FAMILY PRACTICE, GENERAL PEDIATRICS, PRIMARY
    6  CARE INTERNAL MEDICINE OR PRIMARY CARE OBSTETRICS  AND  GYNECOLOGY,  WHO
    7  PROVIDES COORDINATED PRIMARY CARE SERVICES.
    8    2.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL REQUIRE THAT EVERY PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN
    9  POST IN A PLACE OR PLACES, CLEARLY VISIBLE TO ALL PERSONS,  ADJACENT  TO
   10  OR  NEAR THE LOCATION SUCH PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN HAS DESIGNATED FOR THE
   11  RECEIPT OF PAYMENT,  AN  INFORMATIONAL  NOTICE.  SUCH  NOTICE  SHALL  BE
   12  DESIGNED  BY THE COMMISSIONER IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE
   13  AND SHALL CONTAIN INFORMATION DETAILING  HOW  PARENTS  OR  GUARDIANS  OF
   14  INFANTS AND CHILDREN CAN SUBSCRIBE TO THE UNITED STATES CONSUMER PRODUCT
   15  SAFETY  COMMISSION'S E-MAIL SUBSCRIPTION LISTS TO RECEIVE CONSUMER PROD-
   16  UCT RECALL AND SAFETY NEWS BY E-MAIL FROM  THE  UNITED  STATES  CONSUMER
   17  PRODUCT  SAFETY COMMISSION AND SUCH OTHER MATERIAL AS DEEMED APPROPRIATE
   18  BY THE COMMISSIONER. SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO PRIMARY CARE
   19  PHYSICIANS BY THE DEPARTMENT ON ITS WEBSITE AND  SHALL  BE  PROVIDED  IN
   20  ENGLISH,  AS  WELL  AS  IN  THE  SIX  LANGUAGES  OTHER THAN ENGLISH MOST
   21  FREQUENTLY SPOKEN IN THE STATE ACCORDING TO THE  LATEST  AVAILABLE  DATA
   22  FROM THE UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   24  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
   25  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
   26  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
   27  authorized  and directed to be made and completed by the commissioner of
   28  health on or before such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13834-03-1