STATE OF NEW YORK
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5454
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend public health law, in relation to requiring cytomegalo-
virus screening for every newborn
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of section 2500-a of the
2 public health law, as amended by chapter 730 of the laws of 2021, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (h) [With regard to any newborn infant who is identified as, or
5 suspected of, having a hearing impairment as a result of a screening
6 conducted pursuant to section twenty-five hundred-g of this title,]
7 Cytomegalovirus using a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test [for
8 cytomegalovirus, unless the parent of the infant objects thereto];
9 provided that if the commissioner determines that another test for cyto-
10 megalovirus is diagnostically equivalent to or better than the urine
11 polymerase chain reaction test, the commissioner may, by regulation
12 under this section, allow or require the use of that other test.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
15 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
16 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
17 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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