Establishes the save our sight fund to provide monies for educational vision care programs; authorizes agents of the department of motor vehicles to inquire whether persons applying for or renewing a motor vehicle registration, or applying for or renewing a license to operate a motor vehicle wish to voluntarily contribute $1 to such fund; directs the commissioner of health to implement a voluntary children's vision screening, training and certification program to promote education regarding proper vision care; such program shall also target children with eye problems, diseases or illnesses, provide for the purchase and distribution of protective eyewear for children, and provide for the distribution of educational materials on proper vision care; creates a vision care council to assist the commissioner of health in his or her duties. /
Sponsor: Wright Committee: HEALTH

Establishes the disposal of prescription drugs program, implementing a system by which pharmacies accept and dispose of any unused portions of prescription drugs prescribed to residents of this state. /
Sponsor: Miller Committee: HEALTH

Directs the department of health to contract with community-based organizations and not-for-profit corporations for the provision of outreach, information and educational services to immigrants on the availability of health care services, medical assistance, emergency medical assistance, the family health plus program and the child health insurance plan. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: HEALTH

Directs the commissioner of health to establish and implement a uniform letter grading system to classify health inspection results for any place engaged in the preparation, sale or service of food for and to the general public in cities with a population of one million or more; directs the commissioner, upon establishment and implementation of such system, to require the display of any letter grade received pursuant to such system. /
Sponsor: Cymbrowitz Committee: HEALTH

Enhances enforcement of primary care physician loan and scholarship programs by authorizing the commissioner of health to initiate proceedings to suspend the license of a loan repayment award or scholarship recipient who has failed to provide the required primary care service in an underserved area; also authorizes the commissioner to report the amount of such award or scholarship to the department of taxation and finance as income of the recipient. /
Sponsor: STAVISKY Committee: HEALTH

Relates to enforcement actions by the office of the Medicaid inspector general. /
Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee: HEALTH

Establishes the health care practitioner hygienic dress code program within the department of health to address clothing, jewelry and identification tags worn by health care professionals that may cause infection, disease and bacteria in patients, visitors and the general public. /
Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: HEALTH

Provides alternative pricing methods in the sale and offering of funeral merchandise and services; provides for repeal after one year; mandates a report by the consumer protection division on the effectiveness of alternative pricing methods. /
Sponsor: Weprin Committee: HEALTH

Requires every golf course to make available at least one functional cardiac defibrillator and requires that employees of such facility be trained in its proper operation and use. /
Sponsor: Markey Committee: CODES

Relates to accountable care organizations. /
Sponsor: Gottfried Committee: HEALTH

Prohibits smoking on the grounds of general hospitals and residential health care facilities. /
Sponsor: Jaffee Committee: HEALTH

Requires physicians to report instances of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus infections to the commissioner of health. /
Sponsor: Titone Committee: HEALTH

Provides for the autism detection, education and mapping program. /
Sponsor: Titone Committee: HEALTH

Relates to the approval of construction of hospitals or diagnostic treatment centers without regard to public need and financial resource requirements. /
Sponsor: Gottfried

Requires pre-admission notification of policies authorizing the refusal to follow directives in health care proxies that are contrary to a hospital's operating principals. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal

Requires hospitals and other facilities to permit a person, prior to surgery, to either pre-donate his or her own blood or to bring his or her own donor for selective blood donation on an in-patient or out-patient basis. /
Sponsor: Simanowitz Committee: HEALTH

Requires all facilities operated as an office-based practice or setting to annually register with its accrediting agency, in consultation with the department of health; makes such facilities eligible for payments from health insurers for use of an accredited office-based surgery facility, in addition to payments to the surgeon for the procedure. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Requires purchasers of tattoo equipment to prove that they have a permit to operate a tattoo parlor. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: HEALTH

Prohibits approved organizations providing coverage under the child health insurance plan from discriminating against health care providers which do not participate in the organization's health care network. /
Sponsor: Pretlow Committee: HEALTH

Makes provisions relating to the disclosure of special care offered to persons with Alzheimer's disease or dementia; requires any facility that offers, advertises, markets or otherwise promotes itself as providing Alzheimer's and dementia special care must disclose the form of care or treatment provided that distinguishes it as being especially applicable or suitable for persons diagnosed with Alzheimer's, dementia or other disorders; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate necessary rules and regulations; provides for a five hundred dollar civil penalty for a violation. /
Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: HEALTH