Bill Text: NY A03969 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires hospitals to provide parents of newborns with the option to have a DNA test performed on their child or have a blood sample taken from the child and preserved for future DNA testing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to health [A03969 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A03969-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3969
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 30, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  hospi-
         tals  to  provide  DNA  testing of newborns or take blood samples from
         newborns for future DNA testing
         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  2500-k to read as follows:
    3    S 2500-K. DNA TESTING OF  NEWBORNS.  1.  EVERY  GENERAL  OR  OBSTETRIC
    4  HOSPITAL  SHALL  PROVIDE  DNA  TESTING OF NEWBORNS OR TAKE BLOOD SAMPLES
    5  FROM NEWBORNS AND PRESERVE SUCH SAMPLES IN A MANNER THAT DNA TESTING MAY
    6  BE PERFORMED THEREON IN THE FUTURE. SUCH  TESTING  OR  TAKING  OF  BLOOD
    7  SHALL ONLY BE PERFORMED IF THE CHILD'S MOTHER AND FATHER, IF SUCH FATHER
    8  IS  READILY IDENTIFIABLE AND AVAILABLE, CONSENT IN WRITING TO HAVE A DNA
    9  TEST PERFORMED ON THEIR CHILD OR HAVE A  BLOOD  SAMPLE  TAKEN  FROM  THE
   10  CHILD FOR FUTURE DNA TESTING.
   11    2. EVERY GENERAL OR OBSTETRIC HOSPITAL SHALL PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE OF
   12  THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION TO THE MOTHER OF EVERY CHILD BORN IN SUCH
   13  HOSPITAL WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF THE BIRTH.
   14    3.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE ANY RULES AND REGULATIONS NECES-
   15  SARY TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   16    4. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "DNA" SHALL MEAN DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC
   17  ACID.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   19  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately
   20  that  any  rules and regulations necessary for the timely implementation
   21  of this act on its effective date are  authorized  and  directed  to  be
   22  promulgated on or before such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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