Bill Text: NY S05618 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires physicians and hospitals to obtain the name of the school attended by school-aged patients and to include this information in their admission registration forms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-10 - PRINT NUMBER 5618B [S05618 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05618-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5618--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- 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, in relation to requiring physi-
          cians and hospitals to obtain the  name  of  the  school  attended  by
          school-aged  patients  and to include this information in their admis-
          sion registration forms

          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  230-f to read as follows:
     3    § 230-f. Registration requirements. Every physician shall inquire  and
     4  document  as  part  of  his  or  her  patient registration, the name and
     5  address of the school attended by such physician's school-aged  patients
     6  and include such information in the patients' medical registration form.
     7    §  2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2805-zz
     8  to read as follows:
     9    § 2805-zz. Admission registration requirements. All general  hospitals
    10  shall  inquire  and document the name and address of the school attended
    11  by school-aged patients upon admission, and include such information  on
    12  the hospitals' admission registration form.
    13    §  3. This act shall take effect one year after the date upon which it
    14  shall have become a law.



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