Assembly Bill A7997

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires cytomegalovirus screening for every newborn

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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-A7997 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7659
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2500-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A10129

2023-A7997 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires cytomegalovirus screening for every newborn by administration of a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.

2023-A7997 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7997
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             September 1, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend public health law, in relation to requiring  cytomegalo-
   virus screening for every newborn
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of  section  2500-a  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 730 of the laws of 2021, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (h) [With regard to any  newborn  infant  who  is  identified  as,  or
 suspected  of,  having  a  hearing impairment as a result of a screening
 conducted pursuant to section  twenty-five  hundred-g  of  this  title,]
 CYTOMEGALOVIRUS  USING a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test [for
 cytomegalovirus, unless the  parent  of  the  infant  objects  thereto];
 provided that if the commissioner determines that another test for cyto-
 megalovirus  is  diagnostically  equivalent  to or better than the urine
 polymerase chain reaction test,  the  commissioner  may,  by  regulation
 under this section, allow or require the use of that other test.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation 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.
                                                            LBD05820-01-3

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