Directs the commissioner of health to conduct a study of the practice of obstetrical ultrasound procedures for non-medical and non-diagnostic purposes.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4972
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 27, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT directing the commissioner of health to conduct a study of the
practice of obstetrical ultrasound procedures for non-medical and
non-diagnostic purposes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. a. The commissioner of health is directed to conduct a
2 study of the practice of obstetrical ultrasound procedures for non-medi-
3 cal and non-diagnostic purposes. Subjects to be studied shall include,
4 but not be limited to, the health impact of prolonged and/or unnecessary
5 exposure to an ultrasound machine, the proliferation of businesses
6 offering such services in the state, and the adequacy of the current
7 requirements for operation and maintenance of ultrasound machines. The
8 study shall contain any recommendations that the commissioner finds
9 necessary for regulatory or statutory restrictions on the practice of
10 non-medical and non-diagnostic obstetrical ultrasound procedures.
11 b. The commissioner of health shall report, publish and transmit his
12 or her findings to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the minor-
13 ity leader of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate and
14 the minority leader of the senate on or before one year from the date
15 this act shall take effect.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10519-01-5
