Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Mar 13, 2015 |
signed chap.11 |
Mar 06, 2015 |
delivered to governor |
Mar 02, 2015 |
returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading cal.44 substituted for a2554 |
Feb 09, 2015 |
referred to health delivered to assembly passed senate |
Jan 21, 2015 |
ordered to third reading cal.26 |
Jan 14, 2015 |
referred to rules |
Senate Bill S1693
Signed By Governor2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
2015-S1693 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A2554
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง230, Pub Health L
2015-S1693 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S1693 REVISED MEMO 01/21/2015 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to identification, charging, reporting and investigation of charges of professional misconduct by health care professionals PURPOSE: A law adopted in December 2014 codified a nine (9) year old policy used by the Office of Professional Conduct (OPMC) for matters about New York physicians. The purpose of this longstanding policy, and the enactment into law was to continue an appropriate response to complaints about physicians and to promote effective care of patients, while allowing varying modalities used in treatment, including treatment of tick-borne diseases such as Lyme, even if that effective treatment had not achieved universal acceptance by all physicians. This chapter amendment assures preliminary review of the facts and circumstances of all complaints, a process currently carried out under OPMC protocols. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends subdivision 9-b of section 230 of the public health law to clarify that investigations by OPMC of complaints based solely upon the recommendation or provision of a treatment modality to a particular patient that is not universally accepted shall be limited
2015-S1693 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1693 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 14, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- 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 identification, charging, reporting and investigation of charges of professional misconduct by health care professionals THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 9-b of section 230 of the public health law, as added by chapter 532 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 9-b. Neither the board for professional medical conduct nor the office of professional medical conduct shall [identify,] charge A LICENSEE WITH MISCONDUCT AS DEFINED IN SECTIONS SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY AND SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE OF THE EDUCATION LAW, or cause a report made to the director of such office to be investigated BEYOND A PRELIMI- NARY REVIEW AS SET FORTH IN CLAUSE (A) OF SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION TEN OF THIS SECTION, WHERE SUCH REPORT IS DETERMINED TO BE based solely upon the recommendation or provision of a treatment modality TO A PARTICULAR PATIENT by [a] SUCH licensee that is not universally accepted by the medical profession, including but not limit- ed to, varying modalities used in the treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases. [As used in this subdivision the term "licen- see" shall mean a physician, physician's assistant, and specialist's assistant.] When a licensee, acting in accordance with paragraph e of subdivision four of section sixty-five hundred twenty-seven of the education law, recommends or provides a treatment modality that effec- tively treats human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condi- tion FOR WHICH THE LICENSEE IS TREATING A PATIENT, the recommendation or provision of that modality TO A PARTICULAR PATIENT shall not, by itself, constitute professional misconduct. [This prohibition shall not exoner- ate such licensee from otherwise applicable professional requirements] EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. S LBD07678-01-5
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