Bill Text: NY S04401 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the department of health to develop, maintain, and distribute to practicing and licensed physicians in the state a resource library related to continuing medical education and training opportunities regarding nutrition.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-08 - SUBSTITUTED BY A5985A [S04401 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04401-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         4401--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. WEBB, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MAY -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Health
          -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit-
          tee   on  Finance  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to physician  course-
          work or training in nutrition

          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  264 to read as follows:
     3    §  264. Provision of information related to coursework and training in
     4  nutrition. 1. The department shall develop, maintain, and distribute  to
     5  licensed  physicians in the state a resource library related to continu-
     6  ing medical  education  courses  and  training  opportunities  regarding
     7  nutrition,  which  may  include but not be limited to plant-based nutri-
     8  tion, clinically proven methods for the prevention, reversal, and treat-
     9  ment of diet-related illnesses, and  informational  resources  regarding
    10  racial disparities in outcomes for diet-related diseases.
    11    2.  The  resource  library  shall  be  made  publicly available on the
    12  department's website, and shall be updated  and  redistributed  no  less
    13  frequently than every two years via email.
    14    3.  In  compiling  such  resources,  the department shall consult with
    15  organizations representative  of  professions,  institutions  of  higher
    16  education,  and  those  with  expertise in nutrition and the prevention,
    17  reversal, and treatment of diet-related illnesses.
    18    4. The department shall conduct a follow-up survey three  years  after
    19  the first distribution of the resource library to ascertain what propor-
    20  tion  of  physicians  in  the  state  voluntarily  enrolled in nutrition
    21  continuing medical education courses and  trainings  to  determine  best
    22  practices  for  delivering  information  about  the availability of such
    23  courses and trainings. The department shall make a report on the results
    24  of such survey available to the public on the department's website.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2024.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08959-09-3
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