Senate Bill S3622

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the testing of newborns for spinal muscular atrophy and public education thereon

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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-S3622 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2500-a, add §2500-m, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7048
2019-2020: S3355
2023-2024: S1654

2021-S3622 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the testing of newborns for spinal muscular atrophy; requires the department of health to educate the public and distribute informational materials on spinal muscular atrophy.

2021-S3622 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3622 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3622
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  the  testing  of
   newborns for spinal muscular atrophy and public education thereon
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of  section  2500-a  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 307 of the laws of 2018, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. It shall be the duty of the administrative officer or other  person
 in  charge  of  each institution caring for infants twenty-eight days or
 less of age and the person required in pursuance of  the  provisions  of
 section  forty-one  hundred thirty of this chapter to register the birth
 of a child, to cause to have administered to every such infant or  child
 in its or his care a test for:
   i. phenylketonuria[,];
   ii. homozygous sickle cell disease[,];
   iii. hypothyroidism[,];
   iv. branched-chain ketonuria[,];
   v. galactosemia[,];
   vi. homocystinuria[,];
   vii.  critical congenital heart defects through pulse oximetry screen-
 ing[,];
   viii. 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, cause
 to be administered to such infant  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  cytomegalovirus  is diagnostically equivalent to or better than the
 urine polymerase chain reaction test, the  commissioner  may,  by  regu-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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