A 3956: Requires cytomegalovirus screening for every newborn by administration of a dried blood spot or a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.

  
  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