Bill Text: NY A01389 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1389 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires hospitals to offer information about an anti-viral prophylaxis to high-risk infants for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A01389 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01389-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1389
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. JENNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  general
          hospitals  to  offer  information  about  an anti-viral prophylaxis to
          high-risk infants for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2805-z to read as follows:
     3    § 2805-z. Prevention  of  respiratory  syncytial  virus  in  premature
     4  infants.  It  shall  be  the duty of the administrative officer or other
     5  designated person at each facility licensed  pursuant  to  this  article
     6  caring  for  newborn infants to offer to the person in parental relation
     7  to a premature infant or child under the age of  two  and  at  risk  for
     8  respiratory  syncytial  virus U.S. food and drug administration informa-
     9  tion about approved  medication  for  the  prophylaxis  for  respiratory
    10  syncytial virus (RSV) for said infant or child.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02437-01-7