Assembly Bill A9130

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Consolidates provisions relating to telemedicine and telehealth into a single article of the public health law; repealer

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A9130 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4355
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §§2111 & 2805-u, §3614 sub 3-c, sub 11 ¶(a) sub¶ (i), amd §2807-v, add Art 39-A §§3910 - 3913, Pub Health L

2013-A9130 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Consolidates provisions relating to telemedicine and telehealth into a single article of the public health law.

2013-A9130 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  9130

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 19, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  telemedicine  and
  telehealth;  and  to  repeal  certain  provisions of such law relating
  thereto

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

  Section 1. Section 2111 of the public health law is REPEALED.
  S  2. Section 2805-u of the public health law, as added by chapter 390
of the laws of 2012, is REPEALED.
  S 3. The opening paragraph of  paragraph  (uu)  of  subdivision  1  of
section 2807-v of the public health law, as amended by section 8 of part
C of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  Funds shall be reserved and accumulated from year to year and shall be
available,  including  income  from  invested  funds, for the purpose of
supporting disease management [and], telemedicine AND TELEHEALTH  demon-
stration   programs   authorized   pursuant   to   section  [twenty-one]
THIRTY-NINE hundred [eleven] TWELVE of this chapter  for  the  following
periods in the following amounts:
  S  4.  Subdivision  3-c  of  section  3614 of the public health law is
REPEALED.
  S 5. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision  11  of  section
3614 of the public health law is REPEALED.
  S  6. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 39-A to
read as follows:
                              ARTICLE 39-A
                       TELEMEDICINE AND TELEHEALTH
SECTION 3910. DEFINITIONS.
        3911. CREDENTIALING AND PRIVILEGING OF HEALTH  CARE  PRACTITION-
                ERS.
        3912. DISEASE MANAGEMENT DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS.
        3913. HOME TELEHEALTH.
  S  3910.  DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING
TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:

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

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