Senate Bill S2875A

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 2875--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 29, 2015
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Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
  the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
  committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
  recommitted to said committee

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 Section 2500-j of the public health law is REPEALED.
  S 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new  section  2500-l
to read as follows:
  S  2500-L.  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
EIGHTEEN, 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 EIGHTEEN, OF A CHILD
EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF AGE OR OLDER, TO SCREEN SUCH CHILD FOR  AUTISM  SPEC-
TRUM 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (C)  THE  APPROPRIATE  REFERRAL MECHANISM FOR CHILDREN, WHO BASED UPON
THE RESULTS OF SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS, REQUIRE  FURTHER
EVALUATION.
  3. IF THE COMMISSIONER AND THE COMMISSIONER OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILI-
TIES  SHALL  FAIL  TO  PROMULGATE,  ON OR BEFORE MAY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND
EIGHTEEN, THE RULES AND REGULATIONS REQUIRED BY SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO
OF THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ADOPT AND IMPLEMENT  THE  RELEVANT
FEDERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATING THERETO.
  S  3.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 16.39
to read as follows:
S 16.39 PEDIATRIC WELLNESS VISITS; SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM  DISOR-
          DERS.
  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL, JOINTLY WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, AND
ON OR BEFORE MAY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN, PROMULGATE  ANY  AND  ALL
RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  REQUIRED BY SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF SECTION
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED-L OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW RELATING TO THE SCREENING
OF CHILDREN FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS.
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately, except that  section  one
of this act shall take effect September 1, 2018.