Assembly Bill A3439

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Expands hepatitis C screening testing

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Current Bill Status - Stricken

  • 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-A3439 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S524
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2171, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S7328
2021-2022: A9633, S2124

2023-A3439 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands hepatitis C screening testing.

2023-A3439 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3439
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  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.
                                                            LBD01822-01-3

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