A9374 • 2025

Directs the commissioner of health to establish best practice protocols to screen children four years of age and younger for vision problems

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Sponsor: Jonathan Rivera
Last action: 2026-05-11
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Directs the commissioner of health to establish best practice protocols to screen children four years of age and younger for vision problems

Directs the commissioner of health to establish best practice protocols to screen children four years of age and younger for vision problems Directs the commissioner of health to establish best practice protocols to screen children four years of age and younger for vision problems.

What This Bill Does

Directs the commissioner of health to establish best practice protocols to screen children four years of age and younger for vision problems Directs the commissioner of health to establish best practice protocols to screen children four years of age and younger for vision problems.

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Bill History

2026-05-11 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH
2025-12-19 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Directs the commissioner of health to establish best practice protocols to screen children four years of age and younger for vision problems
Directs the commissioner of health to establish best practice protocols to screen children four years of age and younger for vision problems.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          9374

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    December 19, 2025
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing best
          practice protocols to screen children four years of  age  and  younger
          for vision problems

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2500-n to read as follows:
     3    §  2500-N.  VISION SCREENING. 1. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH, FOR
     4  USE BY PEDIATRIC PRIMARY CARE  PROVIDERS,  BEST  PRACTICE  PROTOCOLS  TO
     5  SCREEN  CHILDREN FOUR YEARS OF AGE AND YOUNGER FOR VISION PROBLEMS. SUCH
     6  PROTOCOLS SHALL INCORPORATE STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES ESTABLISHED BY  THE
     7  AMERICAN  ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, AND SHALL BE UPDATED AT LEAST BIENNIAL-
     8  LY, AND SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
     9    (A) THE ROUTINE EMPLOYMENT OF OBJECTIVE  SCREENING  TOOLS  AT  REGULAR
    10  INTERVALS DURING CRITICAL CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES; AND
    11    (B)  AN  APPROPRIATE  REFERRAL  MECHANISM FOR CHILDREN WHO, BASED UPON
    12  RESULTS OF THE AFOREMENTIONED SCREENING PROCESS, REQUIRE FURTHER  EVALU-
    13  ATION.
    14    2.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE ANY RULES AND REGULATIONS NECES-
    15  SARY TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    18  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    19  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    20  completed on or before such date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14232-01-5