Senate Bill S763

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Includes information on congenital heart defect births as part of the department of health's health care and wellness education and outreach program; repealer

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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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2025-S763 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A927
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §207, rpld §2803-j sub 1-e, Pub Health L; amd §3, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.9283 & A.7516-A)

2025-S763 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes information on congenital heart defect births as part of the department of health's health care and wellness education and outreach program; amends the effectiveness thereof.

2025-S763 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S763 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    763
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including informa-
   tion on congenital heart defect births as part of  the  department  of
   health's  health  care and wellness education and outreach program; to
   repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto; and to amend a
   chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public health law relating to
   including information on congenital heart defect births in the  infor-
   mational  leaflets  required  to  be  given  to maternity patients, as
   proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.  9283  and  A.  7516-A,  in
   relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public  health  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
   (H)  BIRTHS OF INFANTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS, INCLUDING TREAT-
 MENT RECOMMENDATIONS, AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION THE  COMMISSIONER  DEEMS
 APPROPRIATE.
   §  2.  Subdivision  1-e of section 2803-j of the public health law, as
 added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 relating to including information
 on congenital heart defect births in the informational leaflets required
 to be given to maternity patients,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
 numbers S. 9283 and A. 7516-A, is REPEALED.
   §  3.  Section  3 of a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public
 health law relating to including information on congenital heart  defect
 births  in  the informational leaflets required to be given to maternity
 patients, as proposed in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.  9283  and  A.
 7516-A, is amended to read as follows:
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the [thirtieth] NINETIETH day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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