Bill Text: NY S02796 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires hospitals to provide forms in Punjabi.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02796 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02796-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2796
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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  requiring  hospi-
          tals to provide forms in Punjabi
          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  2805-z to read as follows:
     3    §  2805-z.  Forms  printed  in  Punjabi.  Every  hospital  shall, at a
     4  patient's request, provide any medical form or printed information which
     5  is given to a patient or required to be signed by  such  patient  trans-
     6  lated into Punjabi.
     7    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00178-01-9