S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4988
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 10, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. MAYERSOHN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing employ-
ees and agents of the division of parole to disclose to the appropri-
ate public health officer certain HIV related information for the
purpose of informing contacts
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (l) of subdivision 1 of section 2782 of the
2 public health law, as added by chapter 584 of the laws of 1988, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (l) an employee or agent of the division of parole[,]; (1) in accord-
5 ance with paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section twenty-seven
6 hundred eighty-six of this article, to the extent the employee or agent
7 is authorized to access records containing such information in order to
8 carry out the division's functions, powers and duties with respect to
9 the protected individual, pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-a
10 of the executive law; AND
11 (2) SHALL DISCLOSE SUCH CONFIDENTIAL HIV RELATED INFORMATION TO THE
12 APPROPRIATE PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING THE DISCLO-
13 SURE TO A CONTACT OR CONTACTS AS SUCH IS DEFINED BY SECTION TWENTY-SEVEN
14 HUNDRED EIGHTY OF THIS ARTICLE. SUCH DISCLOSURE SHALL BE DONE IN A
15 MANNER CONSISTENT WITH CONSIDERATIONS AND PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN SUBDI-
16 VISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION;
17 S 2. 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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