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May 30, 2013 |
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Senate Bill S5638
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2013-S5638 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A721
- Current Committee:
- Senate Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยงยงยง2984 & 2994-n, Pub Health L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2011-2012:
A4902
2015-2016: A1003
2017-2018: A5127
2019-2020: A108
2021-2022: A210
2023-2024: A76
2013-S5638 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S5638 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring pre-admission notification of policies authorizing the refusal to follow directives in health care proxies that are contrary to a hospital's operating principles PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: The purpose of this legislation is to amend the pre-admission disclosure protocols of hospitals relating to the refusal to follow directives specified in health care proxies. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: This bill would amend paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 2984 of the public health law. JUSTIFICATION: Public Health Law Section 2984 requires that health care providers honor advance directives with one exception: the exception provides that an agent's health care decision does not have to be honored because the decision is contrary to a formally adopted policy of the hospital that is expressly based on religious beliefs or sincerely held moral convictions central to the facility's operating principles
2013-S5638 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5638 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E May 30, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- 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 requiring pre-ad- mission notification of policies authorizing the refusal to follow directives in health care proxies that are contrary to a hospital's operating principles THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 2984 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 8 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: (a) the hospital has informed the patient or the health care agent of such policy prior to [or upon] admission, [if reasonably possible] PROVIDED, THAT IN THE CASE OF AN EMERGENCY, THE INFORMATION MAY BE PROVIDED AS SOON AS REASONABLY POSSIBLE UPON OR AFTER ADMISSION, AND IF SUCH INFORMATION IS GIVEN UPON ADMISSION OR LATER, AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY SUCH INFORMATION WAS NOT GIVEN PRIOR TO ADMISSION SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE PATIENT OR HEALTH CARE AGENT AND SHALL BE PLACED IN THE PATIENT'S MEDICAL RECORD; and S 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2994-n of the public health law, as added by chapter 8 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: (b) The hospital has informed the patient, family, or surrogate of such policy prior to [or upon] admission, [if reasonably possible] PROVIDED, THAT IN THE CASE OF AN EMERGENCY, THE INFORMATION MAY BE PROVIDED AS SOON AS REASONABLY POSSIBLE UPON OR AFTER ADMISSION, AND IF SUCH INFORMATION IS GIVEN UPON ADMISSION OR LATER, AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY SUCH INFORMATION WAS NOT GIVEN PRIOR TO ADMISSION SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE PATIENT OR HEALTH CARE AGENT AND SHALL BE PLACED IN THE PATIENT'S MEDICAL RECORD; and S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it 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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