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Assembly Bill A5705

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to health care decisions for adult patients without surrogates

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2017-A5705 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2994-g, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A1124

2017-A5705 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that health care decisions regarding routine medical treatment for adult patients without surrogates are not required to be reviewed by an ethics committee.

2017-A5705 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5705
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  decisions  about
   routine  medical  treatment  for  hospice patients without a surrogate
   decision maker
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph (c) of subdivision 5-a of section 2994-g of the
 public health law, as added by chapter 107  of  the  laws  of  2015,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (c)  The  ethics review committee of the general hospital, residential
 health care facility or hospice, as applicable, including at  least  one
 physician  who  is  not the patient's attending physician, or a court of
 competent jurisdiction, must review the decision and determine  that  it
 is consistent with such standards for surrogate decisions. THIS REQUIRE-
 MENT  SHALL NOT APPLY TO DECISIONS ABOUT ROUTINE MEDICAL TREATMENT. SUCH
 DECISIONS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09696-02-7

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