S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3956
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring cytome-
galovirus 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 NUCLEIC ACID-BASED TEST, SUCH AS A DRIED BLOOD-
SPOT, OR A urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test [for cytomegalovi-
rus, 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] A NUCLEIC ACID-BASED
TEST OR A 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. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
tation 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.
LBD05264-02-5
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