S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4988 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 10, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAYERSOHN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing employ- ees and agents of the division of parole to disclose to the appropri- ate public health officer certain HIV related information for the purpose of informing contacts THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (l) of subdivision 1 of section 2782 of the 2 public health law, as added by chapter 584 of the laws of 1988, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (l) an employee or agent of the division of parole[,]; (1) in accord- 5 ance with paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section twenty-seven 6 hundred eighty-six of this article, to the extent the employee or agent 7 is authorized to access records containing such information in order to 8 carry out the division's functions, powers and duties with respect to 9 the protected individual, pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-a 10 of the executive law; AND 11 (2) SHALL DISCLOSE SUCH CONFIDENTIAL HIV RELATED INFORMATION TO THE 12 APPROPRIATE PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING THE DISCLO- 13 SURE TO A CONTACT OR CONTACTS AS SUCH IS DEFINED BY SECTION TWENTY-SEVEN 14 HUNDRED EIGHTY OF THIS ARTICLE. SUCH DISCLOSURE SHALL BE DONE IN A 15 MANNER CONSISTENT WITH CONSIDERATIONS AND PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN SUBDI- 16 VISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION; 17 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08652-01-1