Bill Text: NY A02121 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires every general hospital to report within seven days to the US consumer product safety commission with any report of any examination or inquiry prepared with respect to any death or serious injury occurring to a child determined to be caused by either a children's product or a durable juvenile product.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A02121 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02121-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2121

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the county law, in relation to
          reporting requirements of any examination  or  inquiry  prepared  with
          respect  to any death or serious injury occurring to a child caused by
          a children's product or a durable juvenile product

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

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Tyler's law".
     2    §  2.  Section  2805-l of the public health law is amended by adding a
     3  new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     4    8. Every general hospital registered under this article  shall  report
     5  within  seven  days to the United States consumer product safety commis-
     6  sion with copies of any report of any examination  or  inquiry  prepared
     7  with  respect to any death or serious injury occurring to a child deter-
     8  mined to be caused by either a children's product or a durable  juvenile
     9  product  as  defined  under  the  federal  children's product safety and
    10  recall effectiveness act of 2008.
    11    § 3. Section 677 of the county law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
    12  sion 10 to read as follows:
    13    10. The coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner shall prompt-
    14  ly, but no later than seven days from the date  of  death,  provide  the
    15  United  States  consumer  product  safety  commission with copies of any
    16  autopsy report or any report of any examination or inquiry prepared with
    17  respect to any death occurring to a child determined  to  be  caused  by
    18  either  a  children's  product  or a durable juvenile product as defined
    19  under the federal children's product safety and recall effectiveness act
    20  of 2008.
    21    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04812-01-1