Senate Bill S6547

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes a health care proxy registry within the department of health

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S6547 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6089
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2980 & 2984, add §2986-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3450
2011-2012: A4545
2013-2014: A5484
2015-2016: S6081, A6307
2019-2020: S3336, A7385
2021-2022: S984, A7185
2023-2024: A1601

2017-S6547 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a health care proxy registry within the department of health to maintain the health care proxies of persons electing to submit proxies to such registry and to provide access thereto by attending health care providers and the principal of the health care proxy.

2017-S6547 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6547 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6547
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 1, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing with-
   in the department of health a health care proxy registry
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 2980 of the public health law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
   16. "HEALTH CARE PROXY REGISTRY" OR "REGISTRY" MEANS THE  HEALTH  CARE
 PROXY  REGISTRY  ESTABLISHED BY SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX-A
 OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2984 of the public health law, as  added
 by chapter 752 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
   1. (A) A health care provider who is provided with a health care proxy
 shall  arrange  for  the  proxy  or a copy thereof to be inserted in the
 principal's medical record  if  the  health  care  proxy  has  not  been
 included in such record.
   (B) WHERE THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION HAVE NOT
 BEEN  MET  AND  THE  REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-
 THREE OF THIS ARTICLE HAVE BEEN SATISFIED,  AN  ATTENDING  PHYSICIAN  OR
 HEALTH CARE PROVIDER SHALL CONTACT THE REGISTRY TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE
 INDIVIDUAL  HAS  TRANSMITTED A HEALTH CARE PROXY TO THE REGISTRY. IN THE
 EVENT SUCH INDIVIDUAL HAS TRANSMITTED HIS OR HER HEALTH  CARE  PROXY  TO
 THE REGISTRY, SUCH HEALTH CARE PROXY OR A COPY THEREOF SHALL BE INSERTED
 IN THE PRINCIPAL'S MEDICAL RECORD.
   §  3.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2986-a
 to read as follows:
   § 2986-A. HEALTH CARE PROXY REGISTRY. 1. DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES
 OF THIS SECTION, "HEALTH CARE PROXY" OR "HEALTH CARE PROXIES" SHALL MEAN
 A HEALTH CARE PROXY OR HEALTH CARE PROXIES PROPERLY EXECUTED PURSUANT TO
 THIS ARTICLE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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