Bill Text: NY A04552 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of health to create cultural education demonstration programs for HIV/AIDS health care providers to instruct them on how to treat patients while being sensitive to their cultural traditions and mores; provides that such program shall focus on the Latin American and Asian cultures.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-09-04 - enacting clause stricken [A04552 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A04552-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4552
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 4, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. P. RIVERA, J. RIVERA, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored
         by  --  M.  of  A.  ARROYO,  AUBRY,  CLARK,  COOK,  V. LOPEZ,   ORTIZ,
         PEOPLES-STOKES,  TOWNS  --  read once and referred to the Committee on
         Health
       AN ACT to direct the commissioner of health to create cultural education
         demonstration programs for HIV/AIDS health care providers
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The commissioner of health shall promulgate rules and regu-
    2  lations  creating  a demonstration program to provide cultural education
    3  demonstration programs for health care providers to patients with  human
    4  immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Such programs
    5  shall  instruct the health care providers on how to treat patients while
    6  being sensitive to their cultural traditions and mores.
    7    S 2. The demonstration programs provided for by section  one  of  this
    8  act  shall provide education in the cultures of the Latin American coun-
    9  tries and the Asian countries.
   10    S 3. The commissioner of health shall report to the legislature  eigh-
   11  teen  months after the programs have been established on the functioning
   12  of the programs along with recommendations for the permanent  establish-
   13  ment  of  cultural  education  demonstration  programs  for  health care
   14  providers.
   15    S 4. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
   16  law;  provided, however, that all regulations necessary to carry out the
   17  provisions of this act shall be promulgated before such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00031-01-1