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Assembly Bill A2914

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring that information be made available to parents regarding window blind safety

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2017-A2914 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1868
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-j, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A5804, S5466
2019-2020: A3840, S4181

2017-A2914 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring that information be made available to parents regarding window blind safety.

2017-A2914 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2914
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to requiring that
   information be made available to parents regarding window blind safety
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 2803-j of the public health law,
 as amended by chapter 199 of the laws of 2014, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1. The commissioner shall require that every hospital and birth center
 shall  prepare in printed or photocopied form and distribute at the time
 of pre-booking directly to each prospective maternity patient and,  upon
 request,  to  the  general public an informational leaflet. Such leaflet
 shall be designed by the commissioner  and  shall  contain  brief  defi-
 nitions  of  maternity  related procedures and practices as specified in
 subdivision two of this section and such other material as deemed appro-
 priate by the commissioner. Hospitals and birth centers may  also  elect
 to  distribute  additional explanatory material along with the maternity
 patients informational leaflet. The commissioner shall make the informa-
 tion contained in the leaflet available on the department's website  AND
 SHALL CAUSE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF LEAFLETS TO BE PRINTED OR PHOTOCOPIED
 TO  ALLOW  EACH  PEDIATRIC PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER IN THE STATE TO PROVIDE
 THE LEAFLET TO PARENTS AT A CHILD'S SIX MONTH APPOINTMENT.
   § 2. Section 2803-j of the public health law, as amended by chapter 62
 of the laws of 1996, is amended by adding a new subdivision 1-e to  read
 as follows:
   1-E.  THE INFORMATIONAL LEAFLET SHALL ALSO INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARD-
 ING THE DANGER THAT WINDOW BLINDS  POSE  TO  CHILDREN  INCLUDING  PROPER
 INSTALLATION  OF BLINDS, EXAMPLES OF CURRENT STANDARDS AND THE POTENTIAL
 FATAL CONSEQUENCES FROM STRANGULATION POSED BY WINDOW BLINDS.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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