Bill Text: NY A01314 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill 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.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A01314 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01314-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1314
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, MOSLEY, RIVERA, GALEF, OTIS, ABINANTI,
          RAIA,  BARCLAY,  MONTESANO  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
          COOK, MOYA, SALADINO -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Health
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to expanding the
          duties of the commissioner of health to notify 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; and to amend the education law, in  relation
          to  including exposing patients to a communicable disease due to reck-
          less conduct in the definition of professional medical malpractice
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 206 of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows:
     3    (w) notify the patient or patients of a health care provider  if  such
     4  health  care  provider  is  determined  to  have exposed such patient or
     5  patients to a communicable disease through reckless conduct,  including,
     6  but not limited to, the reuse of a syringe, needle or other sharp.
     7    §  2.  Section  6530  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
     8  subdivision 50 to read as follows:
     9    50. Exposing patients  to  a  communicable  disease  due  to  reckless
    10  conduct,  including,  but not limited to, the reuse of a syringe, needle
    11  or other sharp.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04438-01-7