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A01143 Summary:

BILL NO	A01143
SAME AS	SAME AS S02796
SPONSOR	Miller MG
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add §2805-z, Pub Health L
Requires hospitals to provide forms in Punjabi.

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A01143 Actions:

BILL NO	A01143
01/14/2019	referred to health
01/08/2020	referred to health

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A01143 Committee Votes:

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A01143 Floor Votes:

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A01143 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1143
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  hospi-
          tals to provide forms in Punjabi
 
          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
     2  2805-z to read as follows:
     3    §  2805-z.  Forms  printed  in  Punjabi.  Every  hospital  shall, at a
     4  patient's request, provide any medical form or printed information which
     5  is given to a patient or required to be signed by  such  patient  trans-
     6  lated into Punjabi.
     7    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00178-01-9

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