STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4621

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the  reporting  of
          lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2799 to read as follows:
     3    §  2799.  Reporting  of  lyme  and  tick-borne disease infection after
     4  death. If a coroner, pathologist,  medical  examiner,  or  other  person
     5  qualified  to conduct an examination of a deceased person discovers that
     6  at the time of death the individual was afflicted  with  lyme  or  other
     7  tick-borne  diseases,  he  or  she shall report the case promptly to the
     8  department according to the manner prescribed by the commissioner.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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