Assembly Bill A1801

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires reporting of cases of pesticide poisoning by licensed or certified health care practitioners acting within the lawful scope of their practice

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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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2015-A1801 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §225, Pub Health L; amd §71-2903, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1668
2011-2012: A3954
2013-2014: A4182
2017-2018: A6084
2019-2020: A4596

2015-A1801 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires licensed or certified health care practitioners acting within the lawful scope of their practice to report confirmed or suspected cases of pesticide poisoning; requires the commissioner of environmental conservation to investigate such cases.

2015-A1801 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1801

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, SCHIMEL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
  of A. COOK, GALEF, GLICK, ORTIZ --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
  Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law and the environmental conservation
  law, in relation to reporting of pesticide poisonings

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

  Section 1. The opening paragraph of paragraph (t) of subdivision 5  of
section  225 of the public health law is designated subparagraph (i) and
a new subparagraph (ii) is added to read as follows:
  (II) NOTWITHSTANDING THE REQUIREMENTS  OF  SUBPARAGRAPH  (I)  OF  THIS
PARAGRAPH,  EVERY  HEALTH  CARE PRACTITIONER LICENSED OR CERTIFIED UNDER
TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW ACTING WITHIN HIS OR HER  LAWFUL  SCOPE
OF  PRACTICE  IN  ATTENDANCE  WITH  A PERSON WITH CONFIRMED OR SUSPECTED
PESTICIDE POISONING, OR CLINICAL  LABORATORY  TEST  RESULTS  WHICH  SHOW
ABNORMALLY  DEPRESSED  CHOLINESTERASE  LEVELS  AND  ABNORMALLY  ELEVATED
TISSUE LEVELS OF PESTICIDES, SHALL REPORT SUCH OCCURRENCE TO THE COMMIS-
SIONER AND THE COMMISSIONER OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION  WITHIN  TWEN-
TY-FOUR  HOURS,  INCLUDING THE NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF THE
PERSON EXPOSED TO PESTICIDES; THE NATURE OF THE PESTICIDE EXPOSURE;  THE
LOCATION WHERE THE EXPOSURE OCCURRED; THE NAME OF THE PESTICIDE APPLICA-
TOR,  IF APPLICABLE, WHO APPLIED OR OTHERWISE HANDLED THE PESTICIDE; AND
THE PESTICIDE IDENTIFIED OR SUSPECTED IN THE PESTICIDE POISONING OR TEST
RESULTS. EVERY PERSON WITH CONFIRMED OR SUSPECTED PESTICIDE POISONING OR
CLINICAL LABORATORY TEST RESULTS WHICH SHOW ABNORMALLY DEPRESSED  CHOLI-
NESTERASE  LEVELS  AND  ABNORMALLY  ELEVATED TISSUE LEVELS OF PESTICIDES
SHALL BE INFORMED BY THE HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER LICENSED OR  CERTIFIED
UNDER  TITLE  EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW ACTING WITHIN HIS OR HER LAWFUL
SCOPE OF PRACTICE, THAT ALL INFORMATION AND DATA FROM THE  DIAGNOSIS  OR
TEST  RESULTS  WILL  BE  DISCLOSED  TO  THE  DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSERVATION. SUCH PERSON SHALL BE INFORMED THAT THEIR NAME, ADDRESS AND

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05825-01-5
              

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