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A00640 Summary:

BILL NO	A00640
SAME AS	SAME AS S04621
SPONSOR	Miller MG
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add §2805-z, Pub Health L
Requires hospitals to provide forms in Punjabi.

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A00640 Actions:

BILL NO	A00640
01/09/2017	referred to health
01/03/2018	referred to health

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A00640 Committee Votes:

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A00640 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           640
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  hospi-
          tals to provide forms in Punjabi
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2805-z to read as follows:
     3    §  2805-z.  Forms  printed  in  Punjabi.  Every  hospital  shall, at a
     4  patient's request, provide any medical form or printed information which
     5  is given to a patient or required to be signed by  such  patient  trans-
     6  lated into Punjabi.
     7    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02771-01-7

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