New York A 3956: Requires cytomegalovirus screening for every newborn

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A03956 Summary:

BILL NOA03956 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05454-A

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSRLunsford, Hevesi, Rozic, Reyes, Shimsky, Dinowitz

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2500-a, Pub Health L

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Requires cytomegalovirus screening for every newborn by administration of a dried blood spot or a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.

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BILL NOA03956 

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01/30/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3956

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring cytome-
 galovirus screening for every newborn

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of section 2500-a of the
 2 public health law, as amended by chapter 730 of the laws of 2021, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 (h) [With regard to any newborn infant who is identified as, or
 5 suspected of, having a hearing impairment as a result of a screening
 6 conducted pursuant to section twenty-five hundred-g of this title,]
 7 Cytomegalovirus using a nucleic acid-based test, such as a dried blood-
 8 spot, or a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test [for cytomegalovi-
 9 rus, unless the parent of the infant objects thereto]; provided that if
 10 the commissioner determines that another test for cytomegalovirus is
 11 diagnostically equivalent to or better than [the] a nucleic acid-based
 12 test or a urine polymerase chain reaction test, the commissioner may, by
 13 regulation under this section, allow or require the use of that other
 14 test.
 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 16 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 17 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 18 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 19 completed on or before such effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05264-02-5

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