Bill Text: NY A02989 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the duties of the commissioner 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) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A02989 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02989-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2989
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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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 -- 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.
                                                                   LBD06167-01-9