Assembly Actions -
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Jan 08, 2020 |
referred to health |
Dec 06, 2019 |
referred to rules |
Senate Bill S6891
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 11th 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
2019-S6891 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S6891 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S6891 SPONSOR: STAVISKY TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation to requiring the transfer of medical records within sixty days of writ- ten request PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To ensure that patient health records are promptly transmitted to the patient upon request. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends section 17 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2017. Section 2 amends section 6530 of the education law by adding a new subdivision 51.
2019-S6891 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6891 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E December 6, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation to requiring the transfer of medical records within sixty days of written request THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of section 17 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows: Upon the written request of any competent patient, parent or guardian of an infant, a guardian appointed pursuant to article eighty-one of the mental hygiene law, or conservator of a conservatee, an examining, consulting or treating physician or hospital must, WITHIN SIXTY CALENDAR DAYS, release and deliver, exclusive of personal notes of the said physician or hospital, copies of all x-rays, medical records and test records including all laboratory tests regarding that patient to any other designated physician or hospital provided, however, that such records concerning the treatment of an infant patient for venereal disease or the performance of an abortion operation upon such infant patient shall not be released or in any manner be made available to the parent or guardian of such infant, and provided, further, that original mammograms, rather than copies thereof, shall be released and delivered. Either the physician or hospital incurring the expense of providing copies of x-rays, medical records and test records including all labora- tory tests pursuant to the provisions of this section may impose a reasonable charge to be paid by the person requesting the release and deliverance of such records as reimbursement for such expenses, provided, however, that the physician or hospital may not impose a charge for copying an original mammogram when the original has been released or delivered to any competent patient, parent or guardian of an EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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