Bill Text: NY S03741 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health and commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to jointly promulgate rules and regulations requiring pediatric health care providers to screen children beginning at the age of 18 months for autism spectrum disorders during each wellness and preventative care examination.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S03741 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03741-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3741 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 13, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PARKER, KENNEDY, MONTGOMERY, PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law and the mental hygiene law, in relation to directing the commissioner of health and the commissioner of developmental disabilities to promulgate rules and regulations requiring every child beginning at the age of eighteen months to be examined for autism spectrum disorders; and to repeal section 2500-j of the public health law relating to screening children for autism spectrum disorders The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2500-j of the public health law is REPEALED. 2 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2500-l 3 to read as follows: 4 § 2500-l. Pediatric wellness visits; screening for autism spectrum 5 disorders. 1. The commissioner shall, jointly with the commissioner of 6 developmental disabilities, and on or before May first, two thousand 7 twenty-one, promulgate rules and regulations requiring every pediatric 8 primary care provider, conducting a wellness and preventative care exam- 9 ination, on or after September first, two thousand twenty-one, of a 10 child eighteen months of age or older, to screen such child for autism 11 spectrum disorders. 12 2. In addition, such rules and regulations shall establish guidelines 13 and protocols for: 14 (a) the best practices for the screening for and diagnosis of autism 15 spectrum disorders; 16 (b) the employment of objective autism spectrum disorder tools; and 17 (c) the appropriate referral mechanism for children, who based upon 18 the results of screening for autism spectrum disorders, require further 19 evaluation. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08526-01-9S. 3741 2 1 3. If the commissioner and the commissioner of developmental disabili- 2 ties shall fail to promulgate, on or before May first, two thousand 3 twenty-one, the rules and regulations required by subdivisions one and 4 two of this section, the department shall adopt and implement the rele- 5 vant federal rules and regulations relating thereto. 6 § 3. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 16.39 7 to read as follows: 8 § 16.39 Pediatric wellness visits; screening for autism spectrum disor- 9 ders. 10 The commissioner shall, jointly with the commissioner of health, and 11 on or before May first, two thousand twenty-one, promulgate any and all 12 rules and regulations required by subdivisions one and two of section 13 twenty-five hundred-l of the public health law relating to the screening 14 of children for autism spectrum disorders. 15 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately, except that section one 16 of this act shall take effect September 1, 2021.