Bill Text: NY S06702 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to lyme disease and tick-borne infection awareness and prevention for children's overnight, summer day and traveling summer day camps; provides guidelines for treatment and notification; provides for the development of materials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06702 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06702-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6702

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 11, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- 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 lyme  disease  and
          tick-borne infection awareness and prevention

          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  1392-b to read as follows:
     3    §   1392-b.  Lyme  disease  and  tick-borne  infection  awareness  and
     4  prevention program for children's overnight, summer  day  and  traveling
     5  summer  day camps. 1. The commissioner, in consultation with the commis-
     6  sioner of environmental conservation, shall develop instructional  tools
     7  and materials for children's overnight camps, summer day camps and trav-
     8  eling  summer  day  camps  regarding  prevention  and  awareness of lyme
     9  disease and other tick-borne infections.  Resources and materials  shall
    10  be  age-appropriate for children attending such camps and provide infor-
    11  mation on the identification of ticks, recommended procedures  for  safe
    12  tick  removal  and best practices to provide protection from ticks. Such
    13  materials  may  include  but  not  be  limited  to  video   productions,
    14  pamphlets, and demonstration programs to illustrate the various sizes of
    15  ticks  before and after engorgement to assist with the identification of
    16  a tick and the reaction on the skin that may occur as a result of a tick
    17  bite. Materials and instructional tools to advance and promote education
    18  and awareness on tick identification and protection shall be made avail-
    19  able to children's overnight  camps,  summer  day  camps  and  traveling
    20  summer  day camps upon request at no charge. Such materials and instruc-
    21  tional tools may also be  made  available  to  children's  non-regulated
    22  camps,  pursuant  to section three hundred ninety-eight-f of the general
    23  business law.
    24    2. The commissioner shall promulgate, and review as  necessary,  rules
    25  and  regulations  related  to  children  attending  children's overnight

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13640-01-9
        S. 6702                             2

     1  camps, summer day camps, and traveling summer day camps who have a  tick
     2  removed  from  them while at such a camp. Such regulations shall include
     3  but not be limited to:
     4    (a)  tick  removal  guidelines  for employees and volunteers of such a
     5  camp, aged eighteen years or older, to be developed by the  commissioner
     6  of health;
     7    (b)  procedures for written notification to a parent or guardian after
     8  a tick has been removed from a child  attending  such  a  camp.  Written
     9  notification  shall  include,  but  not  be limited to, the inclusion of
    10  informational materials developed by the commissioner about  the  spread
    11  of  lyme  disease and other tick-borne infections, signs and symptoms of
    12  lyme or tick-borne infections, and recommendations for how and  when  to
    13  seek medical treatment if needed; and
    14    (c)  the  development  of  informational  materials for such camps and
    15  parents to be provided on the department of health  website.  The  rules
    16  and regulations established pursuant to this subdivision shall be deemed
    17  to  be  the  minimum standards that must be complied with by every chil-
    18  dren's overnight camp, summer day camp, and traveling  summer  day  camp
    19  relating to the removal of ticks on children. Such rules and regulations
    20  may  also  be implemented by children's non-regulated camps, pursuant to
    21  section three hundred ninety-eight-f of the  general  business  law,  if
    22  they so authorize.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.