Bill Text: NY S06947 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the sexual assault forensic examination telemedicine pilot program to provide expert, comprehensive, compassionate care to patients and training to support providers in health care facilities that do not have a designated sexual assault forensic examination program.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 18-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06947 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06947-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6947--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    November 17, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sens. HANNON, GALLIVAN, LARKIN, VALESKY -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Rules  --  recommitted  to  the Committee on Health in accordance with
          Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from  said  committee  and
          committed  to  the  Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the
          sexual assault forensic examination telemedicine pilot program
          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  2805-ii to read as follows:
     3    § 2805-ii. Sexual  assault  forensic  examination  telemedicine  pilot
     4  program. 1. SAFE pilot establishment. The commissioner shall establish a
     5  sexual assault forensic examination (SAFE) telemedicine pilot program to
     6  assist  in  providing expert, comprehensive, compassionate care to adult
     7  and adolescent patients and training to support providers in health care
     8  facilities that do not have a designated sexual assault  forensic  exam-
     9  ination  program.    The commissioner shall consult with the division of
    10  criminal justice services, where appropriate, in  the  establishment  of
    11  such pilot program.  Such SAFE telemedicine pilot shall:
    12    (a)  support patient care and provide health care provider instruction
    13  and support in a timely manner on a twenty-four hours a day, seven  days
    14  a  week basis to any victim of sexual assault or abuse who presents at a
    15  facility participating in such pilot for services associated with sexual
    16  assault or abuse, and consents to such services;
    17    (b) have professionals specially trained, experienced and certified as
    18  sexual assault forensic examiners to support  emergency  room  staff  in
    19  caring for victims of sexual assault or abuse and appropriately securing
    20  forensic evidence through live audio video technology;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13688-03-8
        S. 6947--A                          2
     1    (c)  offer  to  provide  support  through telemedicine to no less than
     2  forty-six hospitals upon the effective date of this  section,  including
     3  all  critical access hospitals and many hospitals in rural and/or under-
     4  served areas of the state;
     5    (d)  ensure  the  medical  records of both providers, where applicable
     6  comply with all applicable laws  and  regulation  relating  to  evidence
     7  preservation; and
     8    (e) meet any other requirements identified by the commissioner.
     9    2. SAFE pilot evaluation. The commissioner shall evaluate, or contract
    10  with an entity to evaluate, the effectiveness of such SAFE pilot program
    11  and  prepare a report on the process of care, the outcomes delivered and
    12  the outcomes received. Such report shall also evaluate  how  such  pilot
    13  can  successfully transition to a self-sustaining program where non-SAFE
    14  hospitals could subscribe to a SAFE telemedicine  program.  Such  report
    15  shall  be  delivered  to  the  governor,  the temporary president of the
    16  senate and the speaker of the assembly by December first,  two  thousand
    17  twenty.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that such sexual
    19  assault  forensic  examination  telemedicine  pilot program, as added by
    20  section one of this act, shall be established  by  the  commissioner  of
    21  health  no  later than the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have
    22  become a law.