Requires health care professionals to ask patients if they have a disability that requires accommodation under The Americans with Disabilities Act on patient in-take forms and what reasonable accommodations are required.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8560
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring health
care professionals to ask patients if they have a disability that
requires accommodation under The Americans with Disabilities Act
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 18-c to read as follows:
3 § 18-c. Patient information forms. 1. Each health care professional
4 licensed, registered or certified pursuant to title eight of the educa-
5 tion law shall include on their patient intake forms the following ques-
6 tions:
7 (a) Does the patient have a disability that requires accommodation
8 under The Americans with Disabilities Act?
9 (b) If so, what is the nature of the patient's disability?
10 (c) Is the patient requesting a reasonable accommodation, and, if so,
11 what is the reasonable accommodation requested?
12 2. Nothing contained herein shall require a patient to answer the
13 inquiries about a disability if they wish not to do so.
14 3. Each health care professional licensed, registered or certified
15 pursuant to title eight of the education law shall notify the department
16 of education that they have complied with the provisions of this section
17 within six months after the effective date of this section. A health
18 care professional entering into practice after the effective date of
19 this section shall notify the department of education that they have
20 complied with the provisions of this section within six months after the
21 health care professional commences practice in this state. A group prac-
22 tice may provide such notice for all health care professionals in the
23 group practice.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
25 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13332-01-3
