STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6705 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE September 11, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring the department of health to develop and disseminate information regarding bone marrow donor programs and authorizing physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to provide such information to patients 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 4369 to read as follows: 3 § 4369. Bone marrow registry information. 1. The commissioner, with 4 the assistance of the transplant council, shall develop and make avail- 5 able information regarding bone marrow donation and registries, includ- 6 ing but not limited to the National Marrow Donor Program "Be The Match 7 Registry" registry and The Bone Marrow Foundation. Such information 8 shall include, but not be limited to: 9 (a) the need for bone marrow donations; 10 (b) patient populations that would benefit from bone marrow donations; 11 (c) how to join the bone marrow registry; and 12 (d) how to acquire a free buccal swab kit from a bone marrow registry. 13 2. The information required by this section shall be made available to 14 the public by the commissioner on the department's website and through 15 other means determined by the commissioner. The information shall also 16 be provided by the commissioner to physicians, physician assistants and 17 nurse practitioners providing primary care for dissemination under 18 subdivision three of this section. 19 3. Each physician, physician assistant and nurse practitioner provid- 20 ing primary care may inquire of new patients who are eighteen years of 21 age or older and under forty-five years of age on their new patient 22 intake form as to whether the patient is registered with the bone marrow EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08313-03-9S. 6705 2 1 registry. If the patient states that he or she is not registered with 2 the bone marrow registry, the physician, physician assistant or nurse 3 practitioner providing primary care shall provide information developed 4 and disseminated by the department regarding the bone marrow registry to 5 the patient. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 7 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate- 8 ly the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation 9 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 10 authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.