STATE OF NEW YORK
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10129
IN ASSEMBLY
April 29, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend public health law, in relation to requiring cytomegalo-
virus screening for every newborn
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of section 2500-a of the
2 public health law, as amended by chapter 730 of the laws of 2021, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (h) [With regard to any newborn infant who is identified as, or
5 suspected of, having a hearing impairment as a result of a screening
6 conducted pursuant to section twenty-five hundred-g of this title,]
7 Cytomegalovirus using a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test [for
8 cytomegalovirus, unless the parent of the infant objects thereto];
9 provided that if the commissioner determines that another test for cyto-
10 megalovirus is diagnostically equivalent to or better than the urine
11 polymerase chain reaction test, the commissioner may, by regulation
12 under this section, allow or require the use of that other test.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that if chapter 730 of
15 the laws of 2021 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then
16 section one of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the
17 same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2021 takes effect. Effective
18 immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regu-
19 lation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
20 date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
21 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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