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S07770 Summary:

BILL NO	S07770
SAME AS	SAME AS A09537-A
SPONSOR	ESPADA
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add S22, Pub Health L
Relates to extending the patient bill of rights to faculty practices and out-patient clinics associated with hospitals.

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S07770 Actions:

BILL NO	S07770
05/07/2010	REFERRED TO HEALTH

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S07770 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7770
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       May 7, 2010
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  ESPADA -- 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  extending  the
          patient  bill  of  rights to faculty practices and out-patient clinics
          associated with hospitals
 
          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 22
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  22. Patient rights; out-patient clinics and faculty practices.  The
     4  commissioner shall require that every  out-patient  clinic  and  faculty
     5  practice  associated  with a hospital adopt and make public an identical
     6  statement of the rights and responsibilities of patients required to  be
     7  made  by  hospitals  pursuant  to  paragraph  (g)  of subdivision one of
     8  section twenty-eight hundred three of this chapter.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                                   LBD15167-03-0

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