Bill Text: NY S01799 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes expedited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-09-13 - SIGNED CHAP.298 [S01799 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01799-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1799 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- 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 authorizing expe- dited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2312 of the public health law, as added by chapter 2 577 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 2312. Expedited partner therapy for chlamydia trachomatis infection 4 and other sexually transmitted infections. 1. Notwithstanding any other 5 provision of law and consistent with section two thousand three hundred 6 five of this title, a health care practitioner (who is authorized under 7 title eight of the education law to diagnose and prescribe drugs for 8 sexually transmitted chlamydia trachomatis infection and other sexually 9 transmitted infections, acting within his or her lawful scope of prac- 10 tice) who diagnoses a sexually transmitted chlamydia trachomatis 11 infection or other sexually transmitted infection in an individual 12 patient may prescribe, dispense, furnish, or otherwise provide 13 prescription antibiotic drugs for the sexually transmitted infections 14 for which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the 15 use of expedited partner therapy to that patient's sexual partner or 16 partners without examination of that patient's partner or partners. 17 2. A health care practitioner who reasonably and in good faith renders 18 expedited partner therapy in accordance with this section and following 19 the rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner shall not be 20 subject to civil or criminal liability or be deemed to have engaged in 21 unprofessional conduct. 22 3. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations concerning 23 the implementation of this section and shall also develop forms for 24 patients and their partners explaining expedited partner therapy for a 25 chlamydia trachomatis infection and other sexually transmitted EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00397-01-9S. 1799 2 1 infections for which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2 recommends the use of expedited partner therapy. Such forms shall be 3 written in a clear and coherent manner using words with common, everyday 4 meanings. 5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 6 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.