Bill Text: NY S00062 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 62

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the reporting of lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-16 - referred to health [S00062 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00062-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           62

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee 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, as determined by the commissioner, he or she  shall
     8  report  the  case  promptly  to  the  department according to the manner
     9  prescribed by the commissioner.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    11  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01396-01-3