Bill Text: NY S00677 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the reporting of lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-02-09 - PRINT NUMBER 677B [S00677 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S00677-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 677--B 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, GAUGHRAN, HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the reporting of lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death 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 2799 to read as follows: 3 § 2799. Reporting of lyme and tick-borne disease infection after 4 death. If a coroner, pathologist, medical examiner, or other person 5 qualified to conduct an examination of a deceased person discovers that 6 at the time of death the individual was afflicted with lyme or other 7 tick-borne diseases, as determined by the commissioner, he or she shall 8 report the case promptly to the department according to the manner 9 prescribed by the commissioner. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 11 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03901-04-2
