Senate Bill S6965

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-S6965 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9524
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-j, rpld §2803-j sub 1-e, add §2509-a, Pub Health L (as proposed in S.4181 & A.3840)

2019-S6965 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-S6965 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6965 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6965
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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  that
   information  be made available to parents regarding window blind safe-
   ty; and to repeal certain provisions of such law related thereto

   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 a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the public  health
 law  relating to requiring that information be made available to parents
 regarding window blind safety, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers
 S. 4181 and A. 3840, 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.  Subdivision  1-e of section 2803-j of the public health law, as
 added by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the public  health  law
 relating  to  requiring  that  information  be made available to parents
 regarding window blind safety, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers
 S. 4181 and A. 3840, is REPEALED.
   §  3.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2509-a
 to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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