Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Feb 07, 2024 |
signed chap.40 delivered to governor |
Jan 24, 2024 |
returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.18 substituted for s8009 |
Jan 23, 2024 |
referred to rules delivered to senate passed assembly |
Jan 18, 2024 |
advanced to third reading cal.248 |
Jan 17, 2024 |
reported |
Jan 08, 2024 |
referred to health |
Assembly Bill A8536
Signed By Governor2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
GUNTHER
Current Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
Nader Sayegh
2023-A8536 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S8009
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§2994-b, 2994-c, 2994-l & 2994-cc, Pub Health L (as proposed in S.2930 & A.4332); amd §1750-b, SCPA
2023-A8536 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8536 I N A S S E M B L Y January 8, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law and the surrogate's court proce- dure act, in relation to orders not to resuscitate THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 3 of section 2994-b of the public health law, as amended by chapter 479 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: Prior to seeking or relying upon a health care decision by a surrogate for a patient under this article, if the attending practitioner has reason to believe that the patient has a history of receiving services for [a] AN INTELLECTUAL OR developmental disability; it reasonably appears to the attending practitioner that the patient has [a] AN INTEL- LECTUAL OR developmental disability; or the practitioner IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL has reason to believe that the patient has been TEMPORARILY transferred from a mental hygiene facility operated or licensed by the office of mental health OR THE OFFICE FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, then such physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant shall make reasonable efforts to determine whether [para- graphs] PARAGRAPH (a), (b) or (c) of this subdivision [are] IS applica- ble: § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 2994-c of the public health law, as added by chapter 8 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: (c) if the patient IS IN A HOSPITAL AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION 1.03 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW OR was transferred from a mental hygiene facility, to the director of the mental hygiene facility and to the mental hygiene legal service under article forty-seven of the mental hygiene law. § 3. Section 2994-l of the public health law, as amended by chapter 708 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: § 2994-l. Interinstitutional transfers. 1. If a patient with an order to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment is transferred from a EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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