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A02914 Summary:

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A02914 Committee Votes:

Committee:HEALTH   Chair:Gottfried      
DATE:02/14/2017AYE/NAY:24/0  Action: Favorable         
Gottfried
Aye
Raia
Aye
Schimminger
Aye
McDonough
Aye
Galef
Aye
Ra
Excused
Dinowitz
Aye
Walter
Aye
Cahill
Aye
Garbarino
Aye
Paulin
Aye
Byrne
Aye
Cymbrowitz
Aye
Norris
Aye
Gunther
Aye
Rosenthal
Excused
Hevesi
Aye
Lavine
Aye
Titone
Aye
Mayer
Aye
Jaffee
Aye
Steck
Aye
Abinanti
Aye
Braunstein
Aye
Kim
Aye
Solages
Aye

A02914 Floor Votes:

A02914 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2914
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 23, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to requiring that
          information be made available to parents regarding window blind safety
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 2803-j of the public health law,
     2  as amended by chapter 199 of the laws of 2014, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The commissioner shall require that every hospital and birth center
     5  shall  prepare in printed or photocopied form and distribute at the time
     6  of pre-booking directly to each prospective maternity patient and,  upon
     7  request,  to  the  general public an informational leaflet. Such leaflet
     8  shall be designed by the commissioner  and  shall  contain  brief  defi-
     9  nitions  of  maternity  related procedures and practices as specified in
    10  subdivision two of this section and such other material as deemed appro-
    11  priate by the commissioner. Hospitals and birth centers may  also  elect
    12  to  distribute  additional explanatory material along with the maternity
    13  patients informational leaflet. The commissioner shall make the informa-
    14  tion contained in the leaflet available on the department's website  and
    15  shall cause a sufficient number of leaflets to be printed or photocopied
    16  to  allow  each  pediatric primary care provider in the state to provide
    17  the leaflet to parents at a child's six month appointment.
    18    § 2. Section 2803-j of the public health law, as amended by chapter 62
    19  of the laws of 1996, is amended by adding a new subdivision 1-e to  read
    20  as follows:
    21    1-e.  The informational leaflet shall also include information regard-
    22  ing the danger that window blinds  pose  to  children  including  proper
    23  installation  of blinds, examples of current standards and the potential
    24  fatal consequences from strangulation posed by window blinds.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    26  have become a law.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04403-01-7