NY State Senate Bill 2021-S213

Senate Bill S213

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires physicians and hospitals to obtain the name of the school attended by school-aged patients and to include this information in their admission registration forms

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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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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 03, 2022	committed to rules
Feb 09, 2022	advanced to third reading
Feb 08, 2022	2nd report cal.
Feb 07, 2022	1st report cal.442
Jan 05, 2022	referred to health
Jan 06, 2021	referred to health

Votes

- Feb 8, 2022 - Health Committee Vote
  S213
  
  10
  
  Aye
  
  4
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Health Committee Vote: Feb 8, 2022
      
      aye (10)
      
      Biaggi
      
      Brouk
      
      Cleare
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kaminsky
      
      May
      
      Rivera
      
      Ryan
      
      Salazar
      
      Thomas
      
      nay (4)
      
      Boyle
      
      Gallivan
      
      Oberacker
      
      Rath III
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Stec

2021-S213 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §§230-f & 2805-aa, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S8085
2017-2018: S2113
2019-2020: S5618

2021-S213 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires physicians and hospitals to obtain the name of the school attended by school-aged patients and to include this information in their admission registration forms.

2021-S213 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S213

SPONSOR: PERSAUD
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring physi-
cians and hospitals to obtain the name of the school attended by school-
aged patients and to include this information in their admission regis-
tration forms

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This bill provides that hospital, medical clinics, and private practice
physicians' offices include a request for the name of the current school
attendance of their patients.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section one of the bill adds § 230-f to the public health law to require
physicians to request and record the name and address of the school
attended by school-aged patients as part of the registration process and

include that information in the patients' medical registration form.

Section two of the bill adds § 2805-aa to the public health law to
require hospitals and medical clinics to request, upon treatment of
patients who are currently enrolled in school, the name of the school
that said patient attends and to include the same in the patient's
records.

Section three of the bill provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The death of 12 year-old Omar Rivera, who attended I.S. 211 in Canarsie,
Brooklyn, from the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly
known as MRSA, and the increasing number of reported infected students
across the state, highlights the need for health practitioners to be
more responsive in alerting the affected community of their potential
exposure to infectious diseases, and of immediate preventative.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2020: Referred to Health
2020: Amend and Recommit to Health (Print Number S5618A)
2020: Amend and Recommit to Health (Print Number S5618B)

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to state.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
One year after becoming law.

2021-S213 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    213
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- 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  physi-
   cians  and  hospitals  to  obtain  the  name of the school attended by
   school-aged patients and to include this information in  their  admis-
   sion registration forms
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  The public health law is amended by adding a  new  section
 230-f to read as follows:
   §  230-F. REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS. EVERY PHYSICIAN SHALL INQUIRE AND
 DOCUMENT AS PART OF HIS  OR  HER  PATIENT  REGISTRATION,  THE  NAME  AND
 ADDRESS  OF THE SCHOOL ATTENDED BY SUCH PHYSICIAN'S SCHOOL-AGED PATIENTS
 AND INCLUDE SUCH INFORMATION IN THE PATIENTS' MEDICAL REGISTRATION FORM.
   § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section  2805-aa
 to read as follows:
   §  2805-AA. ADMISSION REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS. ALL GENERAL HOSPITALS
 SHALL INQUIRE AND DOCUMENT THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE  SCHOOL  ATTENDED
 BY  SCHOOL-AGED PATIENTS UPON ADMISSION, AND INCLUDE SUCH INFORMATION ON
 THE HOSPITALS' ADMISSION REGISTRATION FORM.
   § 3. This act shall take effect one year after the date upon which  it
 shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03267-01-1

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