STATE OF NEW YORK
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3956
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring cytome-
galovirus 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 nucleic acid-based test, such as a dried blood-
8 spot, or a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test [for cytomegalovi-
9 rus, unless the parent of the infant objects thereto]; provided that if
10 the commissioner determines that another test for cytomegalovirus is
11 diagnostically equivalent to or better than [the] a nucleic acid-based
12 test or a urine polymerase chain reaction test, the commissioner may, by
13 regulation under this section, allow or require the use of that other
14 test.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
17 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
18 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
19 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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