Provides that physician registration and hospital admission registration forms in a city with a population of one million or more include the name of school attended by school-aged patients.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2113--A
Cal. No. 1483
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring physi-
cians and hospitals in a city with a population of one million or more
to obtain the name of the school attended by school-aged patients and
to include this information in their admission registration forms
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
2 230-e to read as follows:
3 § 230-e. Registration requirements. Every physician practicing in a
4 city with a population of one million or more shall inquire and document
5 as part of his or her patient registration, the name and address of the
6 school attended by such physician's school-aged patients and include
7 such information in the patients' medical registration form.
8 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2805-z
9 to read as follows:
10 § 2805-z. Admission registration requirements. All general hospitals
11 in a city with a population of one million or more shall inquire and
12 document the name and address of the school attended by school-aged
13 patients upon admission, and include such information on the hospitals'
14 admission registration form.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect one year after the date upon which it
16 shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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