STATE OF NEW YORK
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4987--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, HEVESI -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing a
video on the dangers of drowning for infants and young children to be
viewed by a parent and/or parents of newborn children
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 2803-j of the public health law,
2 as amended by chapter 431 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 6. Every hospital and birth center shall request that [each maternity
5 patient and father of] a parent and/or parents, which shall mean and
6 include biological and adoptive parents, guardians, or other persons in
7 parental relationship to a newborn child, if available, view (a) a video
8 presentation, approved by the commissioner, on the dangers of shaking
9 infants and young children, and the symptoms of shaken baby syndrome,
10 and (b) a video presentation, approved by the commissioner, on the
11 dangers of drowning for infants and young children. After viewing such
12 [a video presentation] video presentations or upon refusal to view such
13 [a video presentation] video presentations, the hospital or birth center
14 shall request that such [patient and/or father] parent and/or parents
15 sign a form stating that they have viewed or refused to view such video
16 [presentation] presentations. All training materials and forms required
17 to implement the provisions of this subdivision shall be provided by the
18 commissioner.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
20 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
21 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
22 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
23 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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