Bill Text: NY S06739 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a health care proxy registry within the department of health to maintain the health care proxies of persons electing to submit proxies to such registry and to provide access thereto by attending health care providers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06739 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S06739-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6739
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 2, 2010
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  HANNON, BONACIC, DeFRANCISCO, FARLEY, O. JOHNSON,
         LARKIN, MORAHAN, VOLKER -- 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 with-
         in the department of health a health care proxy registry
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 2980 of the public health law is amended by  adding
    2  a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
    3    16.  "HEALTH  CARE PROXY REGISTRY" OR "REGISTRY" MEANS THE HEALTH CARE
    4  PROXY REGISTRY ESTABLISHED BY SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED  NINETY-FOUR-A
    5  OF THIS ARTICLE.
    6    S  2. Subdivision 1 of section 2984 of the public health law, as added
    7  by chapter 752 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
    8    1. (A) A health care provider who is provided with a health care proxy
    9  shall arrange for the proxy or a copy thereof  to  be  inserted  in  the
   10  principal's  medical  record  if  the  health  care  proxy  has not been
   11  included in such record.
   12    (B) WHERE THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION HAVE NOT
   13  BEEN  MET  AND  THE  REQUIREMENTS   OF   SECTION   TWENTY-NINE   HUNDRED
   14  EIGHTY-THREE OF THIS ARTICLE HAVE BEEN SATISFIED, AN ATTENDING PHYSICIAN
   15  OR  HEALTH CARE PROVIDER SHALL CONTACT THE REGISTRY TO DETERMINE WHETHER
   16  THE INDIVIDUAL HAS TRANSMITTED A HEALTH CARE PROXY TO THE  REGISTRY.  IN
   17  THE  EVENT  SUCH INDIVIDUAL HAS TRANSMITTED HIS OR HER HEALTH CARE PROXY
   18  TO THE REGISTRY, SUCH HEALTH CARE PROXY  OR  A  COPY  THEREOF  SHALL  BE
   19  INSERTED IN THE PRINCIPAL'S MEDICAL RECORD.
   20    S  3.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2994-a
   21  to read as follows:
   22    S 2994-A. HEALTH CARE PROXY REGISTRY. 1. DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES
   23  OF THIS SECTION, "HEALTH CARE PROXY" OR "HEALTH CARE PROXIES" SHALL MEAN
   24  A HEALTH CARE PROXY OR HEALTH CARE PROXIES PROPERLY EXECUTED PURSUANT TO
   25  THIS ARTICLE.
   26    2. HEALTH CARE PROXY REGISTRY;  ESTABLISHMENT.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL
   27  ESTABLISH A HEALTH CARE PROXY REGISTRY, WHICH SHALL MAINTAIN HEALTH CARE
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  PROXIES  SUBMITTED TO SUCH REGISTRY PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION AND PROVIDE
    2  ACCESS TO SUCH REGISTRY BY ATTENDING PHYSICIANS AND HEALTH CARE  PROVID-
    3  ERS.
    4    3.  TRANSMISSION  OF HEALTH CARE PROXY TO THE REGISTRY. AN INDIVIDUAL,
    5  REGARDLESS OF HIS OR HER RESIDENCY, MAY TRANSMIT HIS OR HER HEALTH  CARE
    6  PROXY TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR PLACEMENT IN THE REGISTRY. SUCH TRANSMISSION
    7  MAY  BE  VIA  FIRST  CLASS MAIL OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PRESCRIBED BY THE
    8  DEPARTMENT IN REGULATION.
    9    4. ACCESS TO THE REGISTRY. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ESTABLISH A  STRAIGHT-
   10  FORWARD,  EASILY  ACCESSIBLE  MECHANISM TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
   11  ACCESS TO THE REGISTRY.   SUCH ACCESS MAY  BE  THROUGH  A  WEBSITE-BASED
   12  SYSTEM  OR  A  TOLL-FREE CALLING SYSTEM. SUCH REGISTRY SHALL COMPLY WITH
   13  ALL STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATED  TO  MAINTAINING  THE
   14  PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF RECORDS CONTAINED WITHIN THE REGISTRY.
   15    5. REVOCATION OR MODIFICATION OF A HEALTH CARE PROXY. WHEN AN INDIVID-
   16  UAL  HAS  REVOKED  OR MODIFIED HIS OR HER HEALTH CARE PROXY, IT SHALL BE
   17  SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO NOTIFY THE REGISTRY OF SUCH  REVOCA-
   18  TION, OR TO TRANSMIT TO THE REGISTRY SUCH MODIFIED REGISTRY.
   19    6.  LIABILITY.  NEITHER  THE  DEPARTMENT,  NOR  THE REGISTRY, SHALL BE
   20  CIVILLY OR CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR PROVIDING, UPON REQUEST, A HEALTH  CARE
   21  PROXY  TO  AN  ATTENDING HEALTH CARE PROVIDER, IF SUCH HEALTH CARE PROXY
   22  BEING PROVIDED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION HAS  BEEN  REVOKED  OR  MODIFIED
   23  PURSUANT  TO  THIS  ARTICLE  BY  THE INDIVIDUAL FOR WHOM THE HEALTH CARE
   24  PROXY HAS BEEN CREATED AND SUCH INDIVIDUAL HAS FAILED TO TRANSMIT TO THE
   25  REGISTRY PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION NOTIFICATION OF SUCH REVOCATION OR, AS
   26  THE CASE MAY BE, FAILED TO TRANSMIT PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SUCH  MODI-
   27  FIED HEALTH CARE PROXY.
   28    S  4.  The department of health shall promulgate regulations to imple-
   29  ment the provisions of this act, which  shall  include,  at  a  minimum,
   30  provisions affording attending health care providers reasonable opportu-
   31  nity to contact the health care proxy registry, at no cost to the health
   32  care provider.
   33    S 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   34  it  shall  have  become  a  law; provided that any rules and regulations
   35  necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective  date
   36  are  authorized and directed to be completed on or before such effective
   37  date.