Bill Text: NY S04741 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4741

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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 12 months for autism spectrum disorders during each wellness and preventative care examination and to conduct such screening annually until such child reaches age six, and thereafter at eleven and fourteen years of age.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-22 - PRINT NUMBER 4741C [S04741 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04741-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4741--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 14, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        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 the office for people with developmental disabilities to promulgate
          rules  and  regulations  requiring every child beginning at the age of
          twelve 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 Section 2500-j of the public health law is REPEALED.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-m
     3  to read as follows:
     4    § 2500-m. Pediatric wellness visits;  screening  for  autism  spectrum
     5  disorders.  1.  The commissioner shall, jointly with the commissioner of
     6  the office for people with developmental disabilities, and on or  before
     7  May  first,  two  thousand twenty-five, promulgate rules and regulations
     8  requiring every pediatric primary care provider, conducting  a  wellness
     9  and  preventative  care  examination,  on  or after September first, two
    10  thousand twenty-five, of a child twelve  months  of  age  or  older,  to
    11  screen  such  child  for  autism  spectrum  disorders,  and conduct such
    12  screening annually until such child  reaches  primary  school  age,  and
    13  thereafter  at  the  beginning of every educational stage, namely middle
    14  and high school.
    15    2. In addition, such rules and regulations shall establish  guidelines
    16  and protocols for:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (a)  the  best practices for the screening for and diagnosis of autism
     2  spectrum disorders;
     3    (b) the employment of objective autism spectrum disorder tools; and
     4    (c)  the  appropriate  referral mechanism for children, who based upon
     5  the results of screening for autism spectrum disorders, require  further
     6  evaluation.
     7    3.  If  the commissioner and the commissioner of the office for people
     8  with developmental disabilities shall fail to promulgate, on  or  before
     9  May  first, two thousand twenty-five, the rules and regulations required
    10  by subdivisions one and two of this section, the department shall  adopt
    11  and implement the relevant federal rules and regulations relating there-
    12  to.
    13    §  3.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 16.39
    14  to read as follows:
    15  § 16.39 Pediatric wellness visits; screening for autism spectrum  disor-
    16            ders.
    17    The  commissioner  shall, jointly with the commissioner of health, and
    18  on or before May first, two thousand twenty-five, promulgate any and all
    19  rules and regulations required by subdivisions one and  two  of  section
    20  twenty-five hundred-m of the public health law relating to the screening
    21  of children for autism spectrum disorders.
    22    §  4.  This act shall take effect immediately, except that section one
    23  of this act shall take effect September 1, 2025.