Bill Text: NY A00313 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes expedited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-04-17 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A00313 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00313-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           313
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 5, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health
        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing expe-
          dited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 2312 of the public health law, as added by chapter
     2  577 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 2312. Expedited partner therapy for chlamydia trachomatis  infection
     4  and other sexually transmitted infections.  1. Notwithstanding any other
     5  provision  of law and consistent with section two thousand three hundred
     6  five of this title, a health care practitioner (who is authorized  under
     7  title  eight  of  the  education law to diagnose and prescribe drugs for
     8  sexually transmitted chlamydia trachomatis infection and other  sexually
     9  transmitted  infections,  acting within his or her lawful scope of prac-
    10  tice)  who  diagnoses  a  sexually  transmitted  chlamydia   trachomatis
    11  infection  or  other  sexually  transmitted  infection  in an individual
    12  patient  may  prescribe,  dispense,  furnish,   or   otherwise   provide
    13  prescription  antibiotic  drugs  for the sexually transmitted infections
    14  for which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends  the
    15  use  of  expedited  partner  therapy to that patient's sexual partner or
    16  partners without examination of that patient's partner or partners.
    17    2. A health care practitioner who reasonably and in good faith renders
    18  expedited partner therapy in accordance with this section and  following
    19  the  rules  and regulations promulgated by the commissioner shall not be
    20  subject to civil or criminal liability or be deemed to have  engaged  in
    21  unprofessional conduct.
    22    3.  The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations concerning
    23  the implementation of this section and  shall  also  develop  forms  for
    24  patients  and  their partners explaining expedited partner therapy for a
    25  chlamydia  trachomatis  infection    and  other   sexually   transmitted
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  infections  for  which  the  Centers  for Disease Control and Prevention
     2  recommends the use of expedited partner therapy.   Such forms  shall  be
     3  written in a clear and coherent manner using words with common, everyday
     4  meanings.
     5    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     6  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.