Bill Text: NY A10328 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10328

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires hospitals to permit an interpreter to remain with a deaf, hard of hearing or nonverbal patient during admission to a hospital until appropriate hospital staff is assigned to interpret.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-30 - reported referred to rules [A10328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10328-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10328

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 17, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lavine) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to treatment of deaf,
          hard of hearing and nonverbal individuals during admission to a hospi-
          tal

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

     1    Section  1. Section 2805-r of the public health law, as added by chap-
     2  ter 451 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 2805-r. Patients unable to hear  or  verbally  communicate.  1.  The
     4  department  shall  make  regulations concerning the treatment of general
     5  hospital patients who are unable to hear or  verbally  communicate,  for
     6  whatever reason, with a health care practitioner or aide.
     7    2.  Such  regulations  shall  establish  standards for a deaf, hard of
     8  hearing or nonverbal patient to have present during [his or  her]  their
     9  period  of  admission a parent, guardian, representative, interpreter or
    10  authorized helper to  assist  in  the  communication  with  health  care
    11  personnel. Such person shall be permitted to remain with the patient for
    12  interpretation until a hospital-provided certified interpreter, or other
    13  qualified person is assigned to the patient.
    14    3.  The standards established under this section shall be incorporated
    15  into the statement of rights and responsibilities  adopted  pursuant  to
    16  paragraph  (g)  of subdivision one of section twenty-eight hundred three
    17  of this article.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15605-01-4