Assembly Bill A9633

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to hepatitis C screening testing

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  • 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-A9633 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2124
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2171, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S7328
2023-2024: A3439, S524

2021-A9633 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to hepatitis C screening testing.

2021-A9633 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9633
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 28, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law, in relation to hepatitis C
   screening testing
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 2171 of the public health law, as
 added by chapter 425 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Every individual born between the years of nineteen hundred  forty-
 five  and  nineteen  hundred sixty-five OR BETWEEN THE YEARS OF NINETEEN
 HUNDRED EIGHTY AND TWO THOUSAND who receives health services as an inpa-
 tient in a general hospital defined in subdivision ten of section  twen-
 ty-eight  hundred  one  of  this  chapter  or  who receives primary care
 services in an outpatient department of such hospital or in a diagnostic
 and treatment center licensed under article twenty-eight of this chapter
 or from a physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner providing
 primary care shall be offered a hepatitis C screening test or  hepatitis
 C  diagnostic  test  unless  the health care practitioner providing such
 services reasonably believes that:
   (a) the individual is being treated for a life threatening  emergency;
 or
   (b) the individual has previously been offered or has been the subject
 of  a hepatitis C screening test (except that a test shall be offered if
 otherwise indicated); or
   (c) the individual lacks capacity to consent to a hepatitis C  screen-
 ing test.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to section 2171 of the public health law made by  section
 one  of  this  act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall
 expire and be deemed repealed therewith.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07018-01-1

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