Bill Text: NY A09300 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes rules and regulations directing pregnant patients to be informed about the donation of postnatal tissue and fluids.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-10)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-14 - referred to health [A09300 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09300-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 14, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring pregnant
         patients  to  be  informed  about the donation of postnatal tissue and
         fluids
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 206 of the public health law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (s) to read as follows:
    3    (S) BY RULE AND REGULATION, REQUIRE THAT ALL PHYSICIANS AND  HOSPITALS
    4  INFORM  PREGNANT  PATIENTS  OF THE FULL RANGE OF OPTIONS FOR DONATION OF
    5  POSTNATAL TISSUE AND FLUIDS NO LATER THAN THIRTY DAYS FROM THE COMMENCE-
    6  MENT OF SUCH PATIENTS' THIRD TRIMESTER OF  PREGNANCY  OR  AT  THE  FIRST
    7  CONSULTATION  BETWEEN THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN OR THE HOSPITAL, WHICHEVER
    8  IS LATER.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   10  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the  addition,  amend-
   11  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
   12  tation  of  this act on its effective date is authorized and directed to
   13  be made 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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