Assembly Bill A1596

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires reporting of a criminal conviction and sentence of a physician

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-A1596 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §380.85, CP L; amd §2995-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9712

2023-A1596 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the reporting of convictions and sentences of certain medical professionals to the office of professional medical conduct within twenty-four hours; requires the department of health to disseminate a criminal conviction and sentence of a physician within forty-eight hours of receipt.

2023-A1596 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1596
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law,  in  relation  to  reporting
   certain  convictions  and  sentences  to  the  office  of professional
   medical conduct within twenty-four hours;  and  to  amend  the  public
   health  law,  in relation to requiring the department to disseminate a
   criminal conviction  and  criminal  sentence  of  a  physician  within
   forty-eight hours of receipt
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 380.85 of the criminal procedure law, as  added  by
 chapter 477 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
 § 380.85 Reporting  CONVICTIONS  AND sentences to office of professional
            medical conduct; licensed physician, physician assistant,  or
            specialist assistant.
   1. WHENEVER A PERSON WHO IS A LICENSED PHYSICIAN, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT,
 OR SPECIALIST ASSISTANT OR A PHYSICIAN WHO IS PRACTICING UNDER A LIMITED
 PERMIT  OR  AS  A MEDICAL RESIDENT IS CONVICTED OF A CRIME, THE DISTRICT
 ATTORNEY OR OTHER PROSECUTING AUTHORITY  WHO  OBTAINED  SUCH  CONVICTION
 SHALL  PROVIDE  NOTIFICATION  OF THE CONVICTION TO THE OFFICE OF PROFES-
 SIONAL MEDICAL CONDUCT WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. SUCH NOTIFICATION SHALL
 IDENTIFY  THE  OFFENSE  OR  OFFENSES  OF  WHICH  SUCH  PERSON  HAS  BEEN
 CONVICTED, THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF SUCH PERSON AND ANY OTHER IDENTIFYING
 INFORMATION  PRESCRIBED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF HEALTH, INCLUDING THE
 PERSON'S DATE OF  BIRTH  AND  SOCIAL  SECURITY  NUMBER,  TO  THE  EXTENT
 CONSISTENT  WITH  FEDERAL  AND STATE LAWS GOVERNING PERSONAL PRIVACY AND
 CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION. SUCH DISTRICT ATTORNEY OR  OTHER  PROSE-
 CUTING  AUTHORITY  SHALL  INCLUDE  IN  SUCH NOTICE THE NAME AND BUSINESS
 ADDRESS OF THE PERSON'S COUNSEL OF RECORD IN THE CRIMINAL PROCEEDING.
   2. Whenever a person who is a licensed physician, physician assistant,
 or specialist assistant or a physician who is practicing under a limited
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05803-01-3
              

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