Bill Text: NY S02697 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02697 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02697-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2697

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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  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 18
     2  to read as follows:

     3                                 ARTICLE 18
     4              DISPENSING OF HEARING AIDS; COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER
     5  Section 1800. Dispensing of hearing aids; county of Westchester.
     6    § 1800. Dispensing of hearing aids;  county  of  Westchester.  1.  The
     7  county  of  Westchester  shall  establish  and implement a 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 twenty-three 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.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    23  have  become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed 5 years after
    24  such date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05255-01-3