Bill Text: NY A01889 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates the offense of reckless infection of a patient with a communicable disease by a health care provider.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A01889 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01889-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1889 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, MOSLEY, GALEF, RIVERA, OTIS, ABINANTI, BARCLAY, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to creating the offense of reckless infection of a patient with a communicable disease by a health care provider The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.67 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 240.67 Reckless infection of a patient with a communicable disease by 4 a health care provider. 5 A person is guilty of reckless infection of a patient with a communi- 6 cable disease by a health care provider when a health care provider 7 through reckless conduct, including, but not limited to, the reuse of a 8 syringe, needle or other sharp, infects a patient with a communicable 9 disease. For the purposes of this section, "health care provider" means 10 any person who is, or is required to be, licensed or registered or holds 11 himself or herself out to be licensed or registered, or provides 12 services as if he or she were licensed or registered in the profession 13 of medicine, chiropractic, dentistry or podiatry under any of the 14 following: article one hundred thirty-one, one hundred thirty-two, one 15 hundred thirty-three, or one hundred forty-one of the education law. 16 Reckless infection of a patient with a communicable disease by a 17 health care provider is a class E felony. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06152-01-9