Bill Text: NY A02631 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires primary care physicians to post certain information detailing how parents or guardians of infants and children can subscribe to the United States consumer product safety commission's e-mail subscription lists.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-13 - reported referred to rules [A02631 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02631-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2631
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 24, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. DINOWITZ, PAULIN, L. ROSENTHAL, JAFFEE, CRESPO,
          GALEF, WEPRIN, BLAKE, SEAWRIGHT, JOHNS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of
          A.  COOK,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  MONTESANO, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  primary
          care  physicians  to post certain information detailing how parents or
          guardians of infants and children can subscribe to the  United  States
          consumer product safety commission's e-mail subscription lists
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Article 25 of the public health law is amended by adding  a
     2  new title 9 to read as follows:
     3                                  TITLE IX
     4                       RECALL SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
     5  Section 2599-e. Physician posting of recall subscription information.
     6    § 2599-e. Physician posting of recall subscription information.  1. As
     7  used  in  this  section,  "primary  care  physician"  means  a physician
     8  specialist in the field of family practice, general pediatrics,  primary
     9  care  internal  medicine  or primary care obstetrics and gynecology, who
    10  provides coordinated primary care services.
    11    2. The commissioner shall require that every  primary  care  physician
    12  post  in  a place or places, clearly visible to all persons, adjacent to
    13  or near the location such primary care physician has designated for  the
    14  receipt  of  payment,  an  informational  notice.  Such  notice shall be
    15  designed by the commissioner in conjunction with the secretary of  state
    16  and  shall  contain  information  detailing  how parents or guardians of
    17  infants and children can subscribe to the United States consumer product
    18  safety commission's e-mail subscription lists to receive consumer  prod-
    19  uct  recall  and  safety  news by e-mail from the United States consumer
    20  product safety commission and such other material as deemed  appropriate
    21  by the commissioner. Such notice shall be made available to primary care
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01445-01-9

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     1  physicians  by  the  department  on its website and shall be provided in
     2  English, as well as  in  the  six  languages  other  than  English  most
     3  frequently  spoken  in  the state according to the latest available data
     4  from  the  United  States  Census Bureau and upon request from a primary
     5  care physician, any other language spoken by  a  significant  number  of
     6  people  within  the  community served by such primary care physician.  A
     7  primary care physician shall post such notice  in  English  and  in  any
     8  other language spoken by significant numbers of people within the commu-
     9  nity he or she serves.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    12  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
    13  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
    14  authorized  and directed to be made and completed by the commissioner of
    15  health on or before such effective date.
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