Assembly Bill A3956

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires cytomegalovirus screening for every newborn

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A3956 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2500-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10129
2023-2024: A7997

2025-A3956 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-A3956 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3956
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  cytome-
   galovirus 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 NUCLEIC ACID-BASED TEST, SUCH AS A DRIED BLOOD-
 SPOT, OR A urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test [for cytomegalovi-
 rus, unless the parent of the infant objects thereto]; provided that  if
 the  commissioner  determines  that  another test for cytomegalovirus is
 diagnostically equivalent to or better than [the] A  NUCLEIC  ACID-BASED
 TEST OR A 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.
                                                            LBD05264-02-5

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