Assembly Bill A8836

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the screening of newborns for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S7694 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A8836 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7694
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2500-a, Pub Health L (as proposed in A.4572 & S.4316)

2021-A8836 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the screening of newborns for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.

2021-A8836 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8836
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to newborn  screening
   for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (j) of subdivision 1 of  section  2500-a  of  the
 public  health  law,  as added by a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending
 the public health law relating to newborn screening for  adrenoleukodys-
 trophy  and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers A. 4572 and S. 4316, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (j)  Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency USING A QUANTITATIVE
 ENZYMATIC TEST OR OTHER DIAGNOSTIC TEST  IN  CASES  WHERE:  THE  NEWBORN
 INFANT  PRESENTS WITH HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC JAUNDICE, OR EARLY-ON-
 SET INCREASING NEONATAL JAUNDICE, THAT  IS,  JAUNDICE  (BILIRUBIN  LEVEL
 GREATER THAN FORTIETH PERCENTILE FOR AGE IN HOURS) PERSISTING BEYOND THE
 DAY  OF  BIRTH THROUGH THE WEEK AFTER BIRTH; THE NEWBORN INFANT HAS BEEN
 ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR JAUNDICE FOLLOWING BIRTH; OR THE BIOLOGICAL
 PARENT OF THE NEWBORN INFANT INDICATES A FAMILY, RACIAL, OR ETHNIC  RISK
 OF   GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE   DEHYDROGENASE  DEFICIENCY,  INCLUDING  HAVING
 SIGNIFICANT AFRICAN, ASIAN, MEDITERRANEAN, OR MIDDLE EASTERN ANCESTRY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the public health law
 relating   to   newborn   screening   for    adrenoleukodystrophy    and
 glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, as proposed in legislative
 bills numbers A. 4572 and S.  4316, takes effect. Effective immediately,
 the commissioner of health shall make regulations and take other actions
 reasonably necessary to implement this act on that date.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00136-02-2

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