Assembly Bill A3840

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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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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2019-A3840 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4181
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-j, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A5804, S5466
2017-2018: A2914, S1868

2019-A3840 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-A3840 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3840
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONALD,  ORTIZ, MORINELLO -- read once and
   referred to the Committee 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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