New York Assembly Bill 1622 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-1)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-06 - referred to codes
Pending: Assembly Codes Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

This bill establishes comprehensive reforms regarding medical misconduct by: (1) Creating a felony for medical professionals who infect patients with a communicable disease through reckless conduct, such as re-using needles; (2) Requiring the State Health Commissioner to inform all patients if they have been exposed to a communicable disease through medical misconduct; (3) Mandate license suspension if it is found that patients have been exposed to communicable diseases through a physician's reckless conduct; (4) Extend the statute of limitations in civil suits for medical malpractice until 30 months after the patient has been notified that they may have been exposed to a communicable disease through the reckless conduct of a physician.

An act to amend the penal law, in relation to creating the crime of reckless infection of a patient with a communicable disease by a health care provider; to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring the notification of patients by the department of health if a health care provider is determined to have exposed patients to a communicable disease through reckless conduct; to amend the education law, in relation to establishing as professional misconduct certain reckless conduct; and to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to the time period for commencing certain medical malpractice actions

Asm. Thomas Alfano [R]	Asm. Carmen Arroyo [D]	Asm. Barbara Clark [D]	Sen. Adriano Espaillat [D]
Asm. Ginny Fields [D]	Asm. Sandra Galef [D]	Asm. Andrew Hevesi [D]	Asm. Earlene Hooper [D]
Asm. Donna Hyer-Spencer [D]	Asm. Ellen Jaffee [D]	Asm. Rory Lancman [D]	Asm. Vito Lopez [D]
Asm. Alan Maisel [D]	Asm. John McEneny [D]	Asm. Felix Ortiz [D]	Asm. Audrey Pheffer [D]
Asm. Jose Rivera [D]	Asm. Annette Robinson [D]	Asm. Harvey Weisenberg [D]	Asm. Kenneth Zebrowski [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-06		referred to codes
2009-01-07		referred to codes

S1913 (Same As) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO CODES

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A01622&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A01622&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A01622