Bill Text: NY A09834 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows certain social service or health personnel to disclose confidential HIV related information for research purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-11-28 - signed chap.461 [A09834 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09834-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9834
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 12, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  allowing  disclo-
          sure  of confidential HIV related information for research purposes to
          certain qualified researchers
          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 2782 of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (r) to read as follows:
     3    (r) qualified researchers  for  medical  research  purposes  upon  the
     4  approval  of  a  research  protocol by a human research review committee
     5  established and approved under the provisions of  article  twenty-four-A
     6  of  this  chapter  or  by  an institutional review board established and
     7  approved under the provisions of 45 CFR part 46 or 42 USC 300  V-1,  for
     8  the  purpose  of  reviewing  and  monitoring  research  involving  human
     9  subjects, provided that in  no  event  shall  any  qualified  researcher
    10  disclose information tending to identify the subjects of the research.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14986-01-6
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