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                                 2832--A

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 24, 2013
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Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
  the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
  committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
  recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law and the mental hygiene law, in
  relation to directing the commissioner of health and the  commissioner
  of the office for people with developmental disabilities to promulgate
  rules  and  regulations  requiring every child beginning at the age of
  eighteen months to be examined for autism spectrum disorders;  and  to
  repeal  section  2500-j of the public health law relating to screening
  children for autism spectrum disorders

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 2500-j of the public health law is REPEALED.
  S  2.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2500-k
to read as follows:
  S 2500-K. PEDIATRIC WELLNESS VISITS;  SCREENING  FOR  AUTISM  SPECTRUM
DISORDERS.  1.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, JOINTLY WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF
THE OFFICE FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, AND ON OR  BEFORE
MAY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  FIFTEEN,  PROMULGATE  RULES  AND REGULATIONS
REQUIRING EVERY PEDIATRIC PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER, CONDUCTING  A  WELLNESS
AND  PREVENTATIVE  CARE  EXAMINATION,  ON  OR AFTER SEPTEMBER FIRST, TWO
THOUSAND FIFTEEN, OF A CHILD EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF AGE OR OLDER, TO  SCREEN
SUCH CHILD FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS.
  2.  IN ADDITION, SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL ESTABLISH GUIDELINES
AND PROTOCOLS FOR:
  (A) THE BEST PRACTICES FOR THE SCREENING FOR AND DIAGNOSIS  OF  AUTISM
SPECTRUM DISORDERS;
  (B) THE EMPLOYMENT OF OBJECTIVE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER TOOLS; AND

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (C)  THE  APPROPRIATE  REFERRAL MECHANISM FOR CHILDREN, WHO BASED UPON
THE RESULTS OF SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS, REQUIRE  FURTHER
EVALUATION.
  3.  IF  THE COMMISSIONER AND THE COMMISSIONER OF THE OFFICE FOR PEOPLE
WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SHALL FAIL TO PROMULGATE, ON  OR  BEFORE
MAY  FIRST,  TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, THE RULES AND REGULATIONS REQUIRED BY
SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ADOPT AND
IMPLEMENT THE RELEVANT FEDERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATING THERETO.
  S 3. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new  section  16.39
to read as follows:
S 16.39 PEDIATRIC  WELLNESS VISITS; SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISOR-
          DERS.
  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, JOINTLY WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF  HEALTH,  AND
ON  OR  BEFORE  MAY  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, PROMULGATE ANY AND ALL
RULES AND REGULATIONS REQUIRED BY SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND  TWO  OF  SECTION
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED-K OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW RELATING TO THE SCREENING
OF CHILDREN FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS.
  S  4.  This act shall take effect immediately, except that section one
of this act shall take effect September 1, 2015.