Bill Text: NY A01654 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the duties of the commission of public health to include notifying the patient or patients of a health care provider if such health care provider is determined to have exposed such patient or patients to a communicable disease through reckless conduct; includes exposing patients to a communicable disease due to reckless conduct in the definition of professional medical malpractice.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to health [A01654 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01654-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1654
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 12, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, MOSLEY, LAVINE, RIVERA, GALEF, OTIS,
         ABINANTI, RAIA, BARCLAY, BORELLI, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --
         M.  of  A.  ARROYO,  COOK,  MOYA,  ROBINSON, SALADINO -- read once and
         referred to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  expanding  the
         duties  of  the  commission  of public health to notify the patient or
         patients of a health care provider if such  health  care  provider  is
         determined  to have exposed such patient or patients to a communicable
         disease through reckless conduct; and to amend the education  law,  in
         relation  to including exposing patients to a communicable disease due
         to reckless conduct in the definition of professional medical malprac-
         tice
         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 206 of the public health law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (v) to read as follows:
    3    (V) NOTIFY THE PATIENT OR PATIENTS OF A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER  IF  SUCH
    4  HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDER  IS  DETERMINED  TO  HAVE EXPOSED SUCH PATIENT OR
    5  PATIENTS TO A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE THROUGH RECKLESS CONDUCT,  INCLUDING,
    6  BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE REUSE OF A SYRINGE, NEEDLE OR OTHER SHARP.
    7    S  2.  Section  6530  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
    8  subdivision 50 to read as follows:
    9    50. EXPOSING PATIENTS  TO  A  COMMUNICABLE  DISEASE  DUE  TO  RECKLESS
   10  CONDUCT,  INCLUDING,  BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE REUSE OF A SYRINGE, NEEDLE
   11  OR OTHER SHARP.
   12    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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