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NY A09670
Bill
Status
5/14/2014
Primary Sponsor
Gary Pretlow
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AI Summary
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Amends Public Health Law section 2994-f to clarify when hospitals and individual health care providers must comply with a surrogate's directive to provide life-sustaining treatment.
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Requires hospitals or health care providers to comply with a surrogate's decision to provide life-sustaining treatment pending patient transfer to a willing provider or judicial review, unless the provider is carrying out the patient's own prior decision.
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Exception applies when the provider is following a patient's own documented decision made pursuant to specific provisions of section 2994-d of the Public Health Law.
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Preserves the surrogate's right to request ethics committee review or judicial review even when the exception applies.
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment.
Legislative Description
Relates to disputes between a surrogate and a hospital or individual health care provider; cites when the requirement of a provider to provide life-sustaining treatment following a surrogate's directive does not apply.
Last Action
reported referred to rules
6/18/2014