Authorizes the commissioner of health to create cultural education demonstration programs for HIV/AIDS health care providers to instruct them on how to treat patients while being sensitive to their cultural traditions and mores; provides that such program shall focus on the Latin American and Asian cultures.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4552
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA, J. RIVERA, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. ARROYO, AUBRY, CLARK, COOK, V. LOPEZ, ORTIZ,
PEOPLES-STOKES, TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Health
AN ACT to direct the commissioner of health to create cultural education
demonstration programs for HIV/AIDS health care providers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The commissioner of health shall promulgate rules and regu-
2 lations creating a demonstration program to provide cultural education
3 demonstration programs for health care providers to patients with human
4 immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Such programs
5 shall instruct the health care providers on how to treat patients while
6 being sensitive to their cultural traditions and mores.
7 § 2. The demonstration programs provided for by section one of this
8 act shall provide education in the cultures of the Latin American coun-
9 tries and the Asian countries.
10 § 3. The commissioner of health shall report to the legislature eigh-
11 teen months after the programs have been established on the functioning
12 of the programs along with recommendations for the permanent establish-
13 ment of cultural education demonstration programs for health care
14 providers.
15 § 4. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
16 law; provided, however, that all regulations necessary to carry out the
17 provisions of this act shall be promulgated before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00031-01-1
