Bill Text: NY A09233 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to health care proxies when the principal is pregnant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-02 - referred to health [A09233 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09233-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9233
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 2, 2014
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       Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to health care  prox-
         ies when the principal is pregnant
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 2981 of the public health  law  is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
    3    (G) A HEALTH CARE PROXY MAY DIRECT WHICH LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT THE
    4  PRINCIPAL WOULD DESIRE OR NOT DESIRE IF THE PRINCIPAL IS PREGNANT AT THE
    5  TIME A HEALTH CARE PROXY BECOMES EFFECTIVE.
    6    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14521-01-4