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                                   6705
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                            September 11, 2019
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 Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  requiring  the
   department  of health to develop and disseminate information regarding
   bone marrow  donor  programs  and  authorizing  physicians,  physician
   assistants  and  nurse  practitioners  to  provide such information to
   patients
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 4369 to read as follows:
   § 4369. BONE MARROW REGISTRY INFORMATION. 1.  THE  COMMISSIONER,  WITH
 THE  ASSISTANCE OF THE TRANSPLANT COUNCIL, SHALL DEVELOP AND MAKE AVAIL-
 ABLE INFORMATION REGARDING BONE MARROW DONATION AND REGISTRIES,  INCLUD-
 ING  BUT  NOT LIMITED TO THE NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM "BE THE MATCH
 REGISTRY" REGISTRY AND THE  BONE  MARROW  FOUNDATION.  SUCH  INFORMATION
 SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   (A) THE NEED FOR BONE MARROW DONATIONS;
   (B) PATIENT POPULATIONS THAT WOULD BENEFIT FROM BONE MARROW DONATIONS;
   (C) HOW TO JOIN THE BONE MARROW REGISTRY; AND
   (D) HOW TO ACQUIRE A FREE BUCCAL SWAB KIT FROM A BONE MARROW REGISTRY.
   2. THE INFORMATION REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO
 THE  PUBLIC  BY THE COMMISSIONER ON THE DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE AND THROUGH
 OTHER MEANS DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER. THE INFORMATION  SHALL  ALSO
 BE  PROVIDED BY THE COMMISSIONER TO PHYSICIANS, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS AND
 NURSE PRACTITIONERS  PROVIDING  PRIMARY  CARE  FOR  DISSEMINATION  UNDER
 SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION.
   3.  EACH PHYSICIAN, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT AND NURSE PRACTITIONER PROVID-
 ING PRIMARY CARE MAY INQUIRE OF NEW PATIENTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN  YEARS  OF
 AGE  OR  OLDER  AND  UNDER  FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE ON THEIR NEW PATIENT
 INTAKE FORM AS TO WHETHER THE PATIENT IS REGISTERED WITH THE BONE MARROW
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 REGISTRY. IF THE PATIENT STATES THAT HE OR SHE IS  NOT  REGISTERED  WITH
 THE  BONE  MARROW  REGISTRY, THE PHYSICIAN, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT OR NURSE
 PRACTITIONER PROVIDING PRIMARY CARE SHALL PROVIDE INFORMATION  DEVELOPED
 AND DISSEMINATED BY THE DEPARTMENT REGARDING THE BONE MARROW REGISTRY TO
 THE PATIENT.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
 ly the addition, amendment and/or  repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
 necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.