Bill Text: NY S05803 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 5803 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to including a lyme disease and tick-borne infection awareness and prevention program within health care and wellness education and outreach programs.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - SIGNED CHAP.167 [S05803 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05803-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5803--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 3, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. SERINO, AMEDORE, BONACIC, FARLEY, LARKIN, LAVALLE,
          LITTLE, MARCHIONE, NOZZOLIO, O'MARA, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Health
          --  recommitted  to  the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to including a Lyme
          disease and tick-borne  infection  awareness  and  prevention  program
          within the health care and wellness education and outreach program
          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 207 of the public  health  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (m) to read as follows:
     3    (m)  A  Lyme disease and tick-borne infection awareness and prevention
     4  program designed to promote the awareness and prevention methods against
     5  Lyme disease and tick-borne infections. Such information  shall  include
     6  but  not  be  limited to guidelines and methods of prevention, including
     7  the safe use of recommended insect repellents, the  best  practices  for
     8  tick removal, recommendations for the reduction of exposure to ticks and
     9  appropriate course of action once a tick is removed from the body.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11381-02-6