Bill Text: NY S05131 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a pilot program for the dispensing of hearing aids in the county of Westchester.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S05131 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05131-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5131
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 10, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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  establishing  a
          pilot  program  for  the  dispensing  of hearing aids in the county of
          Westchester; and providing for the  repeal  of  such  provisions  upon
          expiration thereof
          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 article 17
     2  to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 17
     4              DISPENSING OF HEARING AIDS; COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER
     5  Section 1700. Dispensing of hearing aids; county of Westchester.
     6    § 1700. Dispensing of hearing aids;  county  of  Westchester.  1.  The
     7  county  of  Westchester  shall  establish and implement an comprehensive
     8  pilot program to provide for the dispensing of hearing aids pursuant  to
     9  the  provisions of this section. Such pilot program shall continue for a
    10  period of five years after the effective date of the chapter of the laws
    11  of two thousand nineteen that added this article.
    12    2. An audiologist or hearing aid dispenser licensed under article  one
    13  hundred  fifty-nine of the education law employed by an otolaryngologist
    14  practicing otolaryngology in the county of Westchester who has conducted
    15  a medical evaluation of hearing  loss  may  dispense  hearing  aids  for
    16  profit  provided  that  the otolaryngologist who has conducted a medical
    17  evaluation of hearing loss provides to the patient a list containing the
    18  name and office location of five hearing aid dispensers with a place  of
    19  business  located  within the county of Westchester and a written state-
    20  ment disclosing that the otolaryngologist's office will receive a profit
    21  from the sale of any hearing aid device.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    23  have  become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed 5 years after
    24  such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11146-01-9