Permits runaways and homeless youth under the age of 18 who are receiving approved crisis or support services to consent to medical, dental, health and hospital services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8937
IN SENATE
April 29, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. BRISPORT -- 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 enabling certain
persons to consent for certain medical, dental, health and hospital
services
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 2504 of the public health law, as
2 added by chapter 769 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. Any person who is eighteen years of age or older, or is the parent
4 of a child or has married, or is a runaway or homeless youth as defined
5 in section five hundred thirty-two-a of the executive law, or receives
6 services at an approved runaway and homeless youth crisis services
7 program or a transitional independent living support program as defined
8 in section five hundred thirty-two-a of the executive law, may give
9 effective consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services for
10 [himself or herself] themself, and the consent of no other person shall
11 be necessary.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
14 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
15 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
16 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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