Bill Text: NY S07770 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to extending the patient bill of rights to faculty practices and out-patient clinics associated with hospitals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-07 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07770 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S07770-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7770
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 7, 2010
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  ESPADA -- 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  extending  the
         patient  bill  of  rights to faculty practices and out-patient clinics
         associated with hospitals
         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 22
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S  22. PATIENT RIGHTS; OUT-PATIENT CLINICS AND FACULTY PRACTICES.  THE
    4  COMMISSIONER SHALL REQUIRE THAT EVERY  OUT-PATIENT  CLINIC  AND  FACULTY
    5  PRACTICE  ASSOCIATED  WITH A HOSPITAL ADOPT AND MAKE PUBLIC AN IDENTICAL
    6  STATEMENT OF THE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF PATIENTS REQUIRED TO  BE
    7  MADE  BY  HOSPITALS  PURSUANT  TO  PARAGRAPH  (G)  OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF
    8  SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED THREE OF THIS CHAPTER.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15167-03-0