A10813-2011 Actions

• Sep 10, 2012: referred to health

A10813-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                    10813

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                             September 10, 2012
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Brennan) --
    read once and referred to the Committee on Health

  AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  adreno-
    leukodystrophy screening of newborns

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Aidan's Law".
    S 2. Subdivision (a) of section 2500-a of the public  health  law,  as
  amended  by  chapter  863  of  the  laws  of 1986, is amended to read as
  follows:

    (a) It shall be the duty of the administrative officer or other person
  in charge of each institution caring for infants  twenty-eight  days  or
  less  of  age  and the person required in pursuance of the provisions of
  section forty-one hundred thirty of this chapter to register  the  birth
  of  a child, to cause to have administered to every such infant or child
  in its or his care a test for phenylketonuria,  homozygous  sickle  cell
  disease,  hypothyroidism,  branched-chain ketonuria, galactosemia, homo-
  cystinuria, ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY and such other diseases and  conditions
  as may from time to time be designated by the commissioner in accordance
  with  rules  or regulations prescribed by the commissioner. Testing, the
  recording of the results of such tests, tracking, follow-up reviews  and
  educational  activities  shall  be  performed  at such times and in such
  manner as may be prescribed by the commissioner. The commissioner  shall
  promulgate  regulations  setting  forth  the manner in which information
  describing the purposes of the requirements of  this  section  shall  be
  disseminated to parents or a guardian of the infant tested.
    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
  authorized  and  directed  to  be  made  and completed on or before such
  effective date.

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD16444-01-2