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Assembly Bill A10129

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires cytomegalovirus screening for every newborn

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2021-A10129 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2500-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A7997
2025-2026: A3956

2021-A10129 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires cytomegalovirus screening for every newborn by administration of a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.

2021-A10129 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10129
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend public health law, in relation to requiring  cytomegalo-
   virus screening for every newborn
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of  section  2500-a  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 730 of the laws of 2021, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (h) [With regard to any  newborn  infant  who  is  identified  as,  or
 suspected  of,  having  a  hearing impairment as a result of a screening
 conducted pursuant to section  twenty-five  hundred-g  of  this  title,]
 CYTOMEGALOVIRUS  USING a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test [for
 cytomegalovirus, unless the  parent  of  the  infant  objects  thereto];
 provided that if the commissioner determines that another test for cyto-
 megalovirus  is  diagnostically  equivalent  to or better than the urine
 polymerase chain reaction test,  the  commissioner  may,  by  regulation
 under this section, allow or require the use of that other test.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall  have  become a law; provided, however, that if chapter 730 of
 the laws of 2021 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then
 section one of this act shall take effect on the same date  and  in  the
 same  manner as such chapter of the laws of 2021 takes effect. Effective
 immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regu-
 lation  necessary  for  the  implementation of this act on its effective
 date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
 date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15316-01-2

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