Bill Text: NY S06678 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the office of professional medical conduct to post on its website information on patients' reporting rights regarding professional misconduct involving sexual harassment and assault; requires physicians' practice settings to post signage directing their patients to the office of professional medical conduct's website for information about their rights and how to report professional misconduct.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-10-07 - signed chap.203 [S06678 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06678-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6678--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 30, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to posting informa-
          tion on patients' reporting rights regarding  professional  misconduct
          involving sexual harassment and assault

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 230 of the public health  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
     3    (h)  The  office  of  professional  medical  conduct shall post on its
     4  website information on patients' rights and reporting options under this
     5  subdivision regarding professional misconduct, which shall  specifically
     6  include information on reporting instances of misconduct involving sexu-
     7  al  harassment  and  assault.    All physicians' practice settings shall
     8  conspicuously post signage, visible to their  patients,  directing  such
     9  patients  to  the  office  of professional medical conduct's website for
    10  information about their rights and how to  report  professional  miscon-
    11  duct.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13002-04-0