Assembly Actions -
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Jan 03, 2024 |
referred to health |
Sep 20, 2023 |
referred to rules |
Senate Bill S7659
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D) 14th Senate District
(D, WF) 31st Senate District
2023-S7659 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A7997
- Current Committee:
- Senate Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §2500-a, Pub Health L
- Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
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A10129
2023-S7659 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S7659 SPONSOR: MANNION TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend public health law, in relation to requiring cytomegalo- virus screening for every newborn PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: The purpose of this bill is to establish universal screenings of newborns for cytomegalovirus. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of this bill would remove the requirement that a newborn infant receive a screening conducted by the newborn infant hearing screening program prior to a screening for cytomegalovirus. Section 2 of this bill provides that the effective date shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
2023-S7659 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7659 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E September 20, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules 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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