Senate Bill S6734

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for HIV related testing to be offered routinely during medical visits

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S6734 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2781, 2782 & 2785-a, add §2781-a, Pub Health L

2009-S6734 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for HIV related testing to be offered routinely during medical visits.

2009-S6734 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6734 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6734

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 2, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by Sens. HANNON, DeFRANCISCO, LITTLE, MORAHAN, VOLKER -- 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 HIV related  test-
  ing

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Legislative findings. Public health authorities,  including
the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), stress the impor-
tance of greatly increasing the number of people who receive testing for
infection with HIV. The CDC stresses the offering of testing to patients
without regard to perceived risk. HIV testing helps infected patients by
enabling them to enter health care earlier to monitor their HIV  disease
and initiate treatment when appropriate.  HIV testing provides a unique,
important opportunity to discuss behaviors that prevent transmitting the
virus to others.
  Yet  many health care professionals miss opportunities to offer an HIV
test to their patients for a variety of reasons. Many may  be  reluctant
to  bring  up  what  they anticipate will be a difficult topic. They may
assume that their patients are not at risk for HIV infection.  They  may
worry that patients will interpret the offer of an HIV test to mean that
the  practitioner  is  making negative assumptions about the patient. At
the same time, many patients may not perceive themselves to be  at  risk
for  HIV and so may not initiate testing discussions themselves.  Conse-
quently, many patients are highly unlikely to request HIV testing if  it
is  not offered by their provider. Requiring the offer of testing to all
patients without regard to perceived individual risk will help simplify,
destigmatize, and universalize the offer of HIV testing,  and  therefore
increase  the  likelihood  that individuals will be tested and therefore
learn their HIV status. Because the most important reason for  expanding
HIV  testing  is bringing HIV infected individuals into care as early as
possible, a positive test result must lead to counseling, services,  and
care.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15389-01-0
              

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