Assembly Bill A6279

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Adds G6PD deficiency to the list of testing for neonatal screenings

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  • Introduced
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    • 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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2015-A6279 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2500-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6559
2011-2012: A5470, A7336
2013-2014: A6919

2015-A6279 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase or G6PD deficiency to the list of required neonatal screenings.

2015-A6279 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6279

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 20, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BARRON -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to neonatal testing
  for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD deficiency)

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 2500-a of the public health law,
as  amended  by  chapter  184 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
follows:
  (a) It shall be the duty of the administrative officer or other person
in charge of each institution caring for infants  twenty-eight  days  or
less  of  age  and the person required in pursuance of the provisions of
section forty-one hundred thirty of this chapter to register  the  birth
of  a child, to cause to have administered to every such infant or child
in its or his care a test for phenylketonuria,  homozygous  sickle  cell
disease,  hypothyroidism,  branched-chain ketonuria, galactosemia, homo-
cystinuria, GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE (G6PD  DEFICIENCY),  crit-
ical congenital heart defects through pulse oximetry screening, and such
other  diseases and conditions as may from time to time be designated by
the commissioner in accordance with rules or regulations  prescribed  by
the  commissioner.  Testing, the recording of the results of such tests,
tracking,  follow-up  reviews  and  educational  activities   shall   be
performed  at  such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by the
commissioner. The  commissioner  shall  promulgate  regulations  setting
forth  the  manner  in  which information describing the purposes of the
requirements of this section shall be disseminated to parents or a guar-
dian of the infant tested.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
tation  of  this act on its effective date is authorized and directed to
be made and completed on or before such effective date.

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

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