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A01124 Summary:

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A01124 Committee Votes:

Committee:HEALTH   Chair:Gottfried      
DATE:04/30/2019AYE/NAY:25/0  Action: Favorable         
Gottfried
Aye
Raia
Aye
Schimminger
Aye
McDonough
Aye
Galef
Aye
Ra
Aye
Dinowitz
Aye
Garbarino
Aye
Cahill
Aye
Byrne
Aye
Paulin
Aye
Byrnes
Aye
Cymbrowitz
Aye
Ashby
Aye
Gunther
Aye
Rosenthal
Aye
Hevesi
Aye
Jaffee
Aye
Steck
Aye
Abinanti
Aye
Braunstein
Aye
Kim
Aye
Solages
Aye
Bichotte
Excused
Barron
Aye
Sayegh
Aye

A01124 Floor Votes:

A01124 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1124
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 14, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  decisions  about
          routine  medical  treatment  for  hospice patients without a surrogate
          decision maker
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph (c) of subdivision 5-a of section 2994-g of the
     2  public health law, as added by chapter 430  of  the  laws  of  2017,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  The  ethics review committee of the general hospital, residential
     5  health care facility or hospice, as applicable, including at  least  one
     6  physician  or  nurse  practitioner  who  is  not the patient's attending
     7  physician or attending nurse  practitioner,  or  a  court  of  competent
     8  jurisdiction, must review the decision and determine that it is consist-
     9  ent  with such standards for surrogate decisions. This requirement shall
    10  not apply to decisions about routine medical treatment.  Such  decisions
    11  shall be governed by subdivision three of this section.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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