 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6123
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. TAPIA, DE LOS SANTOS -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Health
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to requiring third
          trimester syphilis 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 2308 of the public health law is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    1. Every physician or other authorized practitioner attending pregnant
     4  [women] patients in the state shall in the case of every [woman] patient
     5  so attended take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such  [woman]
     6  patient  at  the time of first examination, and submit such sample to an
     7  approved laboratory for a standard serological  test  for  syphilis.  In
     8  addition  to testing at the time of first examination, every such physi-
     9  cian or other authorized practitioner shall order a syphilis test during
    10  the third trimester of pregnancy consistent with any guidance and  regu-
    11  lations issued by the commissioner.
    12    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    13  law. Effective immediately, any rules and regulations or guidance neces-
    14  sary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective  date  are
    15  authorized  to be amended, repealed and/or promulgated on or before such
    16  date.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07172-02-3
Requires third trimester syphilis testing

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