Bill Text: NY A08163 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8163 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes a pilot program for the dispensing of hearing aids in the county of Westchester.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A08163 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08163-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8163

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 4, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to establishing a
          pilot program for the dispensing of hearing  aids  in  the  county  of
          Westchester;  and  providing  for  the  repeal of such provisions upon
          expiration thereof

          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 article 17
     2  to read as follows:

     3                                 ARTICLE 17
     4              DISPENSING OF HEARING AIDS; COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER
     5  Section 1700. Dispensing of hearing aids; county of Westchester.
     6    §  1700.  Dispensing  of  hearing  aids; county of Westchester. 1. The
     7  county of Westchester shall establish  and  implement  an  comprehensive
     8  pilot  program to provide for the dispensing of hearing aids pursuant to
     9  the provisions of this section. Such pilot program shall continue for  a
    10  period of five years after the effective date of the chapter of the laws
    11  of two thousand nineteen that added this article.
    12    2.  An audiologist or hearing aid dispenser licensed under article one
    13  hundred fifty-nine of the education law employed by an  otolaryngologist
    14  practicing otolaryngology in the county of Westchester who has conducted
    15  a  medical  evaluation  of  hearing  loss  may dispense hearing aids for
    16  profit provided that the otolaryngologist who has  conducted  a  medical
    17  evaluation of hearing loss provides to the patient a list containing the
    18  name  and office location of five hearing aid dispensers with a place of
    19  business located within the county of Westchester and a  written  state-
    20  ment disclosing that the otolaryngologist's office will receive a profit
    21  from the sale of any hearing aid device.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11146-01-9

        A. 8163                             2

     1    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     2  have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed 5 years  after
     3  such date.