Bill Text: NY S06719 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to care and protection of children; adds to the definition of children at risk infants who test positive for a controlled substance not prescribed by a physician, in their bloodstream or urine, are born dependent on such drugs or who demonstrate drug withdrawal symptoms, or who have been diagnosed with a condition attributable to in utero exposure to illegal drugs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - RECOMMITTED TO RULES [S06719 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06719-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6719
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 9, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, the social services law  and  the
          family court act, in relation to care and protection of children
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2541 of the public health law,  as
     2  added by chapter 428 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  "Children  at risk" means children who may experience a disability
     4  because of  medical,  biological  or  environmental  factors  which  may
     5  produce  developmental  delay,  or  infants  who  test  positive  for  a
     6  controlled substance not prescribed by a physician, in their bloodstream
     7  or urine, are born dependent on such drugs or who demonstrate drug with-
     8  drawal symptoms, or who have been diagnosed with a  condition  attribut-
     9  able to in utero exposure to illegal drugs, as determined by the commis-
    10  sioner through regulation.
    11    §  2.  Paragraphs  (b) and (c) of subdivision 1 of section 2542 of the
    12  public health law, as added by chapter 428 of  the  laws  of  1992,  are
    13  amended and a new paragraph (d) is added to read as follows:
    14    (b) be coordinated with efforts to identify, locate and track children
    15  conducted  by  other  agencies  responsible  for services to infants and
    16  toddlers and their families, including the efforts in (i) part B of  the
    17  federal  individuals  with  disabilities  education act, including early
    18  childhood direction centers, (ii) the maternal and child health  program
    19  under  title  V of the federal social security act, including the infant
    20  health assessment program, (iii) medicaid's  early  periodic  screening,
    21  diagnosis  and  treatment  program under title XIX of the federal social
    22  security act, and (iv) the federal supplemental security income program;
    23  the keeping children and families safe act of 2003; [and]
    24    (c) provide for the identification, tracking and screening of children
    25  at risk of developmental delay, using resources  available  through  the
    26  programs, identified in paragraph (b) of this subdivision and such other
    27  available resources as the commissioner shall commit to this purpose[.];
    28  and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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