Assembly Bill A10606

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Directs the department of health to create an informational pamphlet regarding the laparoscopic power morcellation surgery technique

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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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2021-A10606 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8893
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2504-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A1147, S2463

2021-A10606 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of health to create an informational pamphlet regarding the laparoscopic power morcellation surgery technique.

2021-A10606 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10606
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 6, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Joyner) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
   department of health to create an informational pamphlet regarding the
   laparoscopic power morcellation surgery technique
 
   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
 2504-c to read as follows:
   §  2504-C.  INFORMATION  CONCERNING  LAPAROSCOPIC  POWER  MORCELLATION
 SURGERY TECHNIQUE. 1. ON OR BEFORE  JULY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-
 THREE, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DEVELOP AN INFORMATIVE PAMPHLET FOR PATIENTS
 CONSIDERING  GOING  THROUGH  THE LAPAROSCOPIC POWER MORCELLATION SURGERY
 TECHNIQUE. IN DEVELOPING THE PAMPHLET, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL CONSULT WITH
 STATE PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES REPRESENTING PHYSICIANS IN GENERAL, OBSTET-
 RICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS, FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICIANS, NURSE PRACTITION-
 ERS, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS AND MIDWIVES. THE PAMPHLET SHALL INCLUDE,  BUT
 NOT BE LIMITED TO, INFORMATION CONCERNING:
   (A)  WHAT  THE  LAPAROSCOPIC POWER MORCELLATION SURGERY IS DEFINED AS,
 WHAT THE RISKS AND BENEFITS ARE, AND HOW IT IS PERFORMED;
   (B) IF APPLICABLE, A DESCRIPTION  OF  OTHER  RELEVANT  PROCEDURES  AND
 TECHNIQUES  THAT  MAY  BE APPLICABLE TO THE PATIENT SUCH AS THE HYSTERO-
 SCOPIC MORCELLATION TECHNIQUE;
   (C) THE REQUIREMENT OF SCREENING THE PATIENT  FOR  CANCERS  INCLUDING,
 BUT NOT LIMITED TO: UTERINE MYOMA, ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL SARCOMA (ESS) AND
 LEIOMYOSARCOMA, PRIOR TO UNDERGOING LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY;
   (D)  PRIVACY  EXPECTATIONS,  INCLUDING THAT PRIVACY SHOULD BE PROVIDED
 FOR THE PATIENT BOTH WHEN UNDRESSING AND DRESSING AND THAT A GOWN  OR  A
 DRAPE SHOULD BE PROVIDED;
   (E)  IF  LAPAROSCOPIC HYSTERECTOMY, WHICH IS A SURGICAL PROCEDURE USED
 TO REMOVE THE UTERUS, OR MYOMECTOMY HYSTERECTOMY, WHICH  IS  A  SURGICAL
 PROCEDURE USED TO REMOVE THE FIBROIDS, IS RECOMMENDED, THEN THE PROVIDER
 SHALL  INFORM  THE PATIENT IF POWER MORCELLATION WILL BE USED AND WHY IT
 IS THE BEST OPTION FOR THIS EXACT CASE;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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