Bill Text: NY S05606 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires hospitals distribute literature created by the commissioner to patients at a high risk of sickle cell disease.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-03 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6429B [S05606 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S05606-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5606--B 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 12, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SANDERS, BROOKS, KENNEDY, KRUEGER, MAYER, MYRIE, RAMOS, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi- tals distribute literature created by the commissioner to patients at a high risk of sickle cell disease 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 2803-aa to read as follows: 3 § 2803-aa. Sickle cell disease information distribution. The commis- 4 sioner shall design an informational packet about sickle cell disease, 5 including screening, prevention, and treatment information. Every gener- 6 al hospital shall distribute the packet to every patient, or, if the 7 patient lacks capacity to make health care decisions, to a person who 8 has authority to make health care decisions for the patient, who is 9 suspected to be at high risk of inheriting sickle cell disease. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08518-06-1
