Bill Text: NY S00328 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a large-print version, or at the patient's request an audio recording of the discharge plan and preadmission information to be provided to all blind and visually impaired patients according to the preference of such patient or such patient's representative.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-20 - SUBSTITUTED BY A746A [S00328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S00328-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        328--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by Sens. AVELLA, ADDABBO, GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered
         printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Health
         --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
         and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  providing  all
         blind  and  visually  impaired patients with a large print version or,
         upon request of the patient, with an audio recording of the  discharge
         plan and preadmission information
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 2803-i of the public health law is
    2  renumbered subdivision 10 and a new subdivision 9 is added  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    9.  UPON DISCHARGE OF A BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PATIENT, A HOSPITAL
    5  SHALL OFFER TO PROVIDE THE PATIENT'S DISCHARGE PLAN  IN  A  LARGE  PRINT
    6  VERSION  OR,  AT THE PATIENT'S OR PATIENT'S REPRESENTATIVE'S REQUEST, AS
    7  AN AUDIO RECORDING, TO  BE  MADE  AVAILABLE  TO  SUCH  PATIENT  OR  SUCH
    8  PATIENT'S REPRESENTATIVE ON COMPACT DISC OR OTHER MEDIUM AS THE HOSPITAL
    9  MAY OFFER, OR AS AN ELECTRONICALLY TRANSMITTED DIGITAL FILE, IN ADDITION
   10  TO A WRITTEN COPY OF THE DISCHARGE PLAN.
   11    S  2.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2803-t
   12  to read as follows:
   13    S 2803-T. PREADMISSION INFORMATION. ANY HOSPITAL THAT PROVIDES  PREAD-
   14  MISSION  INFORMATION  TO  A  PATIENT,  SHALL  OFFER  A BLIND OR VISUALLY
   15  IMPAIRED PATIENT A LARGE PRINT VERSION OR, AT THE PATIENT'S OR PATIENT'S
   16  REPRESENTATIVE'S REQUEST, AN AUDIO RECORDING, TO BE  MADE  AVAILABLE  TO
   17  SUCH  PATIENT  OR SUCH PATIENT'S REPRESENTATIVE ON COMPACT DISC OR OTHER
   18  MEDIUM AS THE HOSPITAL MAY OFFER, OR AS  AN  ELECTRONICALLY  TRANSMITTED
   19  DIGITAL FILE, IN ADDITION TO A WRITTEN COPY OF ANY PREADMISSION INFORMA-
   20  TION.
   21    S  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   22  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02139-03-3