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