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Assembly Bill A9606

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires third trimester syphilis testing

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2021-A9606 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2308, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A6123

2021-A9606 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires physicians or other authorized practitioners to test patients for syphilis during the third trimester of pregnancy.

2021-A9606 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9606
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 26, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. TAPIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  requiring  third
   trimester syphilis testing
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2308 of the public health  law  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. Every physician OR OTHER AUTHORIZED PRACTITIONER attending pregnant
 [women] PATIENTS in the state shall in the case of every [woman] PATIENT
 so  attended take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such [woman]
 PATIENT at the time of first examination, and submit such sample  to  an
 approved  laboratory  for  a  standard serological test for syphilis. IN
 ADDITION TO TESTING AT THE TIME OF FIRST EXAMINATION, EVERY SUCH  PHYSI-
 CIAN OR OTHER AUTHORIZED PRACTITIONER SHALL ORDER A SYPHILIS TEST DURING
 THE  THIRD TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY CONSISTENT WITH ANY GUIDANCE AND REGU-
 LATIONS ISSUED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law. Effective immediately, any rules and regulations or guidance neces-
 sary  to  implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are
 authorized to be amended, repealed and/or promulgated on or before  such
 date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14973-01-2

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