Bill Text: NY S02094 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain protocols related to Type 1 diabetes testing of children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02094 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02094-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2094
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  Type  1  diabetes
          testing of children
          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-l to read as follows:
     3    §  2500-l.  Type  1  diabetes; testing of children. 1. Every child who
     4  receives health services as an inpatient in a general  hospital  defined
     5  in  subdivision  ten of section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter
     6  or who receives primary care services in  an  outpatient  department  of
     7  such  hospital  or  in  a diagnostic and treatment center licensed under
     8  article twenty-eight of this chapter or  from  a  physician,  physicians
     9  assistant or nurse practitioner providing primary care who presents with
    10  two  or  more  symptoms  for Type 1 diabetes shall be provided a primary
    11  screening of a random blood sugar test.
    12    2. Where a child's random blood sugar  test  indicates  a  high  blood
    13  glucose reading, the health care provider shall conduct a glycated hemo-
    14  globin (A1C) test.
    15    3.  If the A1C test indicates diabetes, the health care provider shall
    16  either offer the child follow-up health care  or  refer  the  parent  or
    17  guardian  of the child to a health care provider who can provide follow-
    18  up health care.
    19    4. This section shall not affect the scope of  practice  of  a  health
    20  care practitioner.
    21    5. The commissioner shall promulgate such rules and regulations neces-
    22  sary to carry out the requirements of this section.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    24  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04875-01-7