Bill Text: NY S08599 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for third trimester syphilis testing in addition to such testing in the first trimester.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-10 - referred to health [S08599 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08599-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8599--B

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 21, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to third trimester
          syphilis testing

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 2308 of the public health law is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    1. Every physician or other authorized practitioner attending pregnant
     4  [women] patients in the state shall in the case of every [woman] patient
     5  so attended take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such  [woman]
     6  patient  at  the time of first examination, and submit such sample to an
     7  approved laboratory for a standard serological  test  for  syphilis.  In
     8  addition  to testing at the time of first examination, every such physi-
     9  cian or other authorized practitioner may order a syphilis  test  during
    10  the  third trimester of pregnancy consistent with any guidance and regu-
    11  lations issued by the commissioner.
    12    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public health law is  amended
    13  by adding a new paragraph (q) to read as follows:
    14    (q)  congenital  syphilis,  including  information about education and
    15  screening.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    17  law. Effective immediately, any rules and regulations or guidance neces-
    18  sary  to  implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are
    19  authorized to be amended, repealed and/or promulgated on or before  such
    20  date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15122-03-2