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S02697 Summary:
BILL NO | S02697 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS A02478 |
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SPONSOR | HARCKHAM |
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Add Art 18 §1800, Pub Health L | |
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Establishes a pilot program for the dispensing of hearing aids in the county of Westchester. |
S02697 Actions:
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01/24/2023 | REFERRED TO HEALTH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/03/2024 | REFERRED TO HEALTH |
S02697 Committee Votes:
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Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2697 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing a pilot program for the dispensing of hearing aids in the county of Westchester; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof 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 article 18 2 to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 18 4 DISPENSING OF HEARING AIDS; COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER 5 Section 1800. Dispensing of hearing aids; county of Westchester. 6 § 1800. Dispensing of hearing aids; county of Westchester. 1. The 7 county of Westchester shall establish and implement a comprehensive 8 pilot program to provide for the dispensing of hearing aids pursuant to 9 the provisions of this section. Such pilot program shall continue for a 10 period of five years after the effective date of the chapter of the laws 11 of two thousand twenty-three that added this article. 12 2. An audiologist or hearing aid dispenser licensed under article one 13 hundred fifty-nine of the education law employed by an otolaryngologist 14 practicing otolaryngology in the county of Westchester who has conducted 15 a medical evaluation of hearing loss may dispense hearing aids for 16 profit provided that the otolaryngologist who has conducted a medical 17 evaluation of hearing loss provides to the patient a list containing the 18 name and office location of five hearing aid dispensers with a place of 19 business located within the county of Westchester and a written state- 20 ment disclosing that the otolaryngologist's office will receive a profit 21 from the sale of any hearing aid device. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 23 have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed 5 years after 24 such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05255-01-3