Bill Text: NY S03608 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing a video on the dangers of drowning for infants and young children to be viewed by a parent and/or parents of newborn children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - SIGNED CHAP.588 [S03608 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03608-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3608--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  WEBB,  ADDABBO,  CLEARE, COMRIE -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Women's   Issues   --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
          video  on the dangers of drowning for infants and young children to be
          viewed by a parent and/or parents of newborn children

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 6 of section 2803-j of the public health law,
     2  as amended by chapter 431 of the laws of 2004, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    6.  Every hospital and birth center shall request that [each maternity
     5  patient and father of] a parent and/or parents,  which  shall  mean  and
     6  include  biological and adoptive parents, guardians, or other persons in
     7  parental relationship to a newborn child, if available, view (a) a video
     8  presentation, approved by the commissioner, on the  dangers  of  shaking
     9  infants  and  young  children, and the symptoms of shaken baby syndrome,
    10  and (b) a video presentation,  approved  by  the  commissioner,  on  the
    11  dangers  of drowning for infants and young children.  After viewing such
    12  [a video presentation] video presentations or upon refusal to view  such
    13  [a video presentation] video presentations, the hospital or birth center
    14  shall  request  that  such [patient and/or father] parent and/or parents
    15  sign a form stating that they have viewed or refused to view such  video
    16  [presentation] presentations.  All training materials and forms required
    17  to implement the provisions of this subdivision shall be provided by the
    18  commissioner.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    21  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    22  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    23  completed on or before such effective date.

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