 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public  health  law,  in  relation  to  hepatitis  C
          screening testing
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2171 of the public health law,  as
     2  added by chapter 425 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  Every individual born between the years of nineteen hundred forty-
     4  five and nineteen hundred sixty-five or between the  years  of  nineteen
     5  hundred eighty and two thousand who receives health services as an inpa-
     6  tient  in a general hospital defined in subdivision ten of section twen-
     7  ty-eight hundred one of  this  chapter  or  who  receives  primary  care
     8  services in an outpatient department of such hospital or in a diagnostic
     9  and treatment center licensed under article twenty-eight of this chapter
    10  or from a physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner providing
    11  primary  care shall be offered a hepatitis C screening test or hepatitis
    12  C diagnostic test unless the health  care  practitioner  providing  such
    13  services reasonably believes that:
    14    (a)  the individual is being treated for a life threatening emergency;
    15  or
    16    (b) the individual has previously been offered or has been the subject
    17  of a hepatitis C screening test (except that a test shall be offered  if
    18  otherwise indicated); or
    19    (c)  the individual lacks capacity to consent to a hepatitis C screen-
    20  ing test.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    22  the  amendments to section 2171 of the public health law made by section
    23  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such  section  and  shall
    24  expire and be deemed repealed therewith.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01822-01-3
Expands hepatitis C screening testing

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