STATE OF NEW YORK
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6429--B
Cal. No. 372
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 17, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN, GALEF, DICKENS, PERRY, OTIS -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Health -- reported and referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
advanced to a third reading, passed by Assembly and delivered to the
Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote reconsidered, bill amended,
ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi-
tals distribute literature created by the commissioner to patients at
a high risk of sickle cell disease
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 2803-aa to read as follows:
3 § 2803-aa. Sickle cell disease information distribution. The commis-
4 sioner shall design an informational packet about sickle cell disease,
5 including screening, prevention, and treatment information. Every gener-
6 al hospital shall distribute the packet to every patient, or, if the
7 patient lacks capacity to make health care decisions, to a person who
8 has authority to make health care decisions for the patient, who is
9 suspected to be at high risk of inheriting sickle cell disease.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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