NY A01654 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly

Status

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-4)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-01-06 - referred to health
Pending: Assembly Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Summary

Expands the duties of the commission of public health to include notifying the patient or patients of a health care provider if such health care provider is determined to have exposed such patient or patients to a communicable disease through reckless conduct; includes exposing patients to a communicable disease due to reckless conduct in the definition of professional medical malpractice.

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Title

Expands the duties of the commission of public health to include notifying the patient or patients of a health care provider if such health care provider is determined to have exposed such patient or patients to a communicable disease through reckless conduct; includes exposing patients to a communicable disease due to reckless conduct in the definition of professional medical malpractice.

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History

DateChamberAction
2016-01-06Assemblyreferred to health
2015-01-12Assemblyreferred to health

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