Bill Text: NY S04401 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of health to develop, maintain, and distribute to practicing and licensed physicians in the state a resource library related to continuing medical education and training opportunities regarding nutrition.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-08 - SUBSTITUTED BY A5985A [S04401 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4401

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  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 physician  course-
          work or training in nutrition

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

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  264 to read as follows:
     3    §  264.  Provision of information related to coursework or training in
     4  nutrition. 1. The department shall develop, maintain, and distribute  to
     5  practicing  and  licensed  physicians  in  the  state a resource library
     6  related to  continuing  medical  education  and  training  opportunities
     7  regarding  nutrition,  which  shall include but not be limited to plant-
     8  based nutrition and other clinically proven methods for the  prevention,
     9  reversal,  and treatment of diet-related illnesses. The resource library
    10  shall include continuing education resources regarding  racial  dispari-
    11  ties in outcomes for diet-related diseases.
    12    2.  The  resource  library  shall  be  made  publicly available on the
    13  department's website and updated and redistributed annually via email.
    14    3. The department shall consult with organizations  representative  of
    15  professions, institutions, and those with expertise in nutrition and the
    16  prevention, reversal, and treatment of diet-related illnesses to compile
    17  these resources. Coursework or training funded directly or indirectly by
    18  commercial  food production entities, or their trade organizations shall
    19  not be included in the distributed list of coursework.
    20    4. The department shall conduct a follow-up survey two, four, and  six
    21  years  after the first distribution of the resource library to ascertain
    22  what proportion of physicians  in  the  state  voluntarily  enrolled  in
    23  nutrition  continuing  medical education courses and trainings to deter-
    24  mine best practices for delivering information about the availability of
    25  such courses and trainings. The report shall be delivered to the  legis-
    26  lature and made available to the public.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08959-01-3