Bill Text: NY S03504 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3504 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for quality standards for dental prosthetic devices and for disclosure of the manufacturing location of such devices.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S03504 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S03504-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3504
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 24, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  oversight  of
         dental laboratories and disclosure of the manufacturer of dental pros-
         thetic devices
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 28 to read as follows:
    3    28. THE COMMISSIONER IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED  TO  PROMULGATE  RULES
    4  AND  REGULATIONS  TO  ESTABLISH  QUALITY STANDARDS FOR DENTAL PROSTHETIC
    5  DEVICES SOLD IN THE STATE AND PRODUCED  IN  DENTAL  LABORATORIES  OR  AT
    6  OTHER DENTAL MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES.  THE COMMISSIONER IS ALSO AUTHOR-
    7  IZED  AND DIRECTED TO PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS REQUIRING DISCLO-
    8  SURE TO DENTISTS AND DENTAL PATIENTS OF THE PLACE OF MANUFACTURE OF  ANY
    9  DENTAL  PROSTHETIC  DEVICES  USED  BY  THE  DENTIST  OR A PATIENT OF THE
   10  DENTIST.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   12  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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