Senate Bill S3304

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring the office of developmental disabilities to require pediatric care providers to screen for autism; repealer

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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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2021-S3304 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §2500-j, add §2500-m, Pub Health L; add §16.39, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S6201
2011-2012: S3404
2013-2014: S2832
2015-2016: S2875
2017-2018: S2432
2019-2020: S3741
2023-2024: S4741

2021-S3304 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health and commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to jointly promulgate rules and regulations requiring pediatric health care providers to screen children beginning at the age of 18 months for autism spectrum disorders during each wellness and preventative care examination.

2021-S3304 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3304 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3304
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the  mental  hygiene  law,  in
   relation  to directing the commissioner of health and the commissioner
   of developmental disabilities  to  promulgate  rules  and  regulations
   requiring  every  child  beginning at the age of eighteen months to be
   examined for autism spectrum disorders; and to repeal  section  2500-j
   of  the  public  health  law relating to screening children for autism
   spectrum disorders
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2500-j of the public health law is REPEALED.
   §  2.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2500-m
 to read as follows:
   § 2500-M. PEDIATRIC WELLNESS VISITS;  SCREENING  FOR  AUTISM  SPECTRUM
 DISORDERS.  1.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, JOINTLY WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF
 DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, AND ON OR BEFORE  MAY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND
 TWENTY-THREE, PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS REQUIRING EVERY PEDIATRIC
 PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER, CONDUCTING A WELLNESS AND PREVENTATIVE CARE EXAM-
 INATION,  ON  OR  AFTER SEPTEMBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE, OF A
 CHILD EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF AGE OR OLDER, TO SCREEN SUCH CHILD  FOR  AUTISM
 SPECTRUM DISORDERS.
   2.  IN ADDITION, SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL ESTABLISH GUIDELINES
 AND PROTOCOLS FOR:
   (A) THE BEST PRACTICES FOR THE SCREENING FOR AND DIAGNOSIS  OF  AUTISM
 SPECTRUM DISORDERS;
   (B) THE EMPLOYMENT OF OBJECTIVE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER TOOLS; AND
   (C)  THE  APPROPRIATE  REFERRAL MECHANISM FOR CHILDREN, WHO BASED UPON
 THE RESULTS OF SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS, REQUIRE  FURTHER
 EVALUATION.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07378-01-1
              

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