STATE OF NEW YORK
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2472
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 20, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to third trimester
syphilis testing
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 2308 of the public health law is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 1. Every physician or other authorized practitioner attending pregnant
4 [women] patients in the state shall in the case of every [woman] patient
5 so attended take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such [woman]
6 patient at the time of first examination, and submit such sample to an
7 approved laboratory for a standard serological test for syphilis. In
8 addition to testing at the time of first examination, every such physi-
9 cian or other authorized practitioner may order a syphilis test during
10 the third trimester of pregnancy consistent with any guidance and regu-
11 lations issued by the commissioner.
12 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public health law is amended
13 by adding a new paragraph (r) to read as follows:
14 (r) congenital syphilis, including information about education and
15 screening.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
17 law. Effective immediately, any rules and regulations or guidance neces-
18 sary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are
19 authorized to be amended, repealed and/or promulgated on or before such
20 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07172-01-3
