Assembly Bill A7516A

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes information on congenital heart defect births in the informational leaflets required to be given to maternity patients

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2023-A7516 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9283
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-j, Pub Health L

2023-A7516 - Summary

Includes information on congenital heart defect births in the informational leaflets required to be given to maternity patients by hospitals and birth centers.

2023-A7516 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7516
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 25, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including informa-
   tion on congenital heart defect births in the  informational  leaflets
   required to be given to maternity patients

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 "Paul's law".
   § 2. Section 2803-j of the public health law, as amended by chapter 62
 of  the laws of 1996, is amended by adding a new subdivision 1-e to read
 as follows:
   1-E. THE INFORMATIONAL LEAFLET SHALL ALSO INCLUDE INFORMATION  RELATED
 TO CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT BIRTHS, INCLUDING TREATMENT REQUIREMENTS, AND
 ANY OTHER INFORMATION THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DEEM APPROPRIATE.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11477-01-3

2023-A7516A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9283
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-j, Pub Health L

2023-A7516A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes information on congenital heart defect births in the informational leaflets required to be given to maternity patients by hospitals and birth centers.

2023-A7516A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7516--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 25, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with
   Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including informa-
   tion on congenital heart defect births in the  informational  leaflets
   required to be given to maternity patients
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 "Paul's law".
   § 2. Section 2803-j of the public health law, as amended by chapter 62
 of  the laws of 1996, is amended by adding a new subdivision 1-e to read
 as follows:
   1-E. THE INFORMATIONAL LEAFLET SHALL ALSO INCLUDE INFORMATION  RELATED
 TO  CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT BIRTHS, INCLUDING TREATMENT RECOMMENDATIONS,
 AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DEEM APPROPRIATE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11477-02-4

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