Assembly Bill A6123

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires third trimester syphilis 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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2023-A6123 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2308, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9606

2023-A6123 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires physicians or other authorized practitioners to test patients for syphilis during the third trimester of pregnancy.

2023-A6123 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6123
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. TAPIA, DE LOS SANTOS -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to requiring third
   trimester syphilis 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 2308 of the public health law is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. Every physician OR OTHER AUTHORIZED PRACTITIONER attending pregnant
 [women] PATIENTS in the state shall in the case of every [woman] PATIENT
 so attended take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such  [woman]
 PATIENT  at  the time of first examination, and submit such sample to an
 approved laboratory for a standard serological  test  for  syphilis.  IN
 ADDITION  TO TESTING AT THE TIME OF FIRST EXAMINATION, EVERY SUCH PHYSI-
 CIAN OR OTHER AUTHORIZED PRACTITIONER SHALL ORDER A SYPHILIS TEST DURING
 THE THIRD TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY CONSISTENT WITH ANY GUIDANCE AND  REGU-
 LATIONS ISSUED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law. Effective immediately, any rules and regulations or guidance neces-
 sary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective  date  are
 authorized  to be amended, repealed and/or promulgated on or before such
 date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07172-02-3

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