Assembly Bill A1124

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to health care decisions for adult patients without surrogates

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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-A1124 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6356
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2994-g, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A5705

2019-A1124 (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.

2019-A1124 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1124
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 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 430  of  the  laws  of  2017,  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  or  nurse  practitioner  who  is  not the patient's attending
 physician or attending nurse  practitioner,  or  a  court  of  competent
 jurisdiction, must review the decision and determine that it is consist-
 ent  with such standards for surrogate decisions. THIS REQUIREMENT 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.
                                                            LBD03525-01-9

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