STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5618 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- 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 physi- cians and hospitals to obtain the name of the school attended by school-aged patients and to include this information in their admis- sion registration forms 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 2 230-e to read as follows: 3 § 230-e. Registration requirements. Every physician shall inquire and 4 document as part of his or her patient registration, the name and 5 address of the school attended by such physician's school-aged patients 6 and include such information in the patients' medical registration form. 7 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2805-z 8 to read as follows: 9 § 2805-z. Admission registration requirements. All general hospitals 10 shall inquire and document the name and address of the school attended 11 by school-aged patients upon admission, and include such information on 12 the hospitals' admission registration form. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect one year after the date upon which it 14 shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02521-02-9