Bill Text: NY A01518 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires a local health department to report positive cytomegalovirus results.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A01518 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01518-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1518

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  report-
          ing of positive cytomegalovirus test results

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1.  Article 21 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new title 9 to read as follows:
     3                                  TITLE IX
     4                               CYTOMEGALOVIRUS
     5  Section 2185. Cytomegalovirus; duty to report.
     6    § 2185. Cytomegalovirus; duty to report. 1.   Upon notice to  a  local
     7  health department through the electronic clinical laboratories reporting
     8  system that a newborn has tested positive for cytomegalovirus, the local
     9  health  department  shall immediately contact the pediatrician of record
    10  for such newborn and notify such pediatrician of the positive result. If
    11  such pediatrician cannot be notified, then the local  health  department
    12  shall contact the chief of newborn services at the hospital in which the
    13  newborn was born. If such chief of newborn services cannot be contacted,
    14  then  the  local health department shall contact the medical director at
    15  the hospital in which the newborn was born.
    16    2. The local health department shall simultaneously contact the parent
    17  of any newborn with a positive test result for cytomegalovirus to inform
    18  them that the newborn has tested positive for cytomegalovirus.
    19    3. If the positive test was from a saliva specimen, a polymerase chain
    20  reaction  urine  test  as  required  pursuant  to  section   twenty-five
    21  hundred-a  of  this  chapter  shall be administered as soon as possible,
    22  provided that the newborn is no more than three weeks in age, to confirm
    23  the test result.
    24    4. If a urine test administered pursuant to subdivision three of  this
    25  section  confirms  that  the  results  are  positive,  the  local health

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05736-01-3

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     1  department shall immediately contact the pediatrician of record for such
     2  newborn and notify such pediatrician of the positive result.    If  such
     3  pediatrician  cannot be notified, then the local health department shall
     4  contact  the  chief  of  newborn  services  at the hospital in which the
     5  newborn was born. If such chief of newborn services cannot be contacted,
     6  then the local health department shall contact the medical  director  at
     7  the  hospital  in which the newborn was born. In addition, the parent or
     8  guardian of the newborn shall be contacted no later than one  week  from
     9  such  positive  result  and  shall be referred to a pediatric infectious
    10  disease specialist to perform a full  examination  before  such  newborn
    11  reaches  four  weeks  of age. Such examination shall include, but not be
    12  limited to:
    13    (a) Measurement of head circumference;
    14    (b) Head sonogram;
    15    (c) Blood tests including a complete blood count  and  liver  function
    16  tests;
    17    (d) Eye exam by an ophthalmologist; and
    18    (e) Hearing evaluation by auditory brainstem response.
    19    5. Upon notification of a positive urine test result for cytomegalovi-
    20  rus  administered  pursuant  to  subdivisions  three  and  four  of this
    21  section, the local health department shall contact the  pediatrician  or
    22  hospital chief of newborn services or the hospital medical director, and
    23  the parent or guardian, to ensure the referral to a pediatric infectious
    24  disease  specialist  pursuant  to  subdivision  four of this section was
    25  completed.
    26    6. The commissioner shall cause cytomegalovirus to  be  added  to  the
    27  list of communicable diseases designated pursuant to 10 NYCRR part 2.1.
    28    7.  For the purposes of this section, the term "newborn" shall include
    29  any infant of the age of thirty-one days or less.
    30    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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