Bill Text: NY S06415 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the reporting of lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - referred to health [S06415 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06415-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6415

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        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,  he  or  she shall report the case promptly to the
     8  department according to the manner prescribed by the commissioner.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13262-01-9
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