NY State Senate Bill 2015-S4860A

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Feb 08, 2016	print number 4860a
Feb 08, 2016	amend and recommit to health
Jan 06, 2016	referred to health
Apr 22, 2015	referred to health

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2015-S4860 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A2170
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2312, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: A10277
2013-2014: A1919
2017-2018: S2545, A313
2019-2020: S1799, A2998

2015-S4860 - Summary

Authorizes expedited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections.

2015-S4860 - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S4860

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the public health law, in relation to
authorizing expedited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted
infections

PURPOSE:

To allow for expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted
infections that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
recommend for the sexual partner or partners of someone having been
diagnosed with the disease.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one, subdivision one allows a health care provider
practitioner who is authorized under New York State law to diagnose or
prescribe drugs for sexually transmitted infections, may prescribe or
dispense antibiotic drugs to that person's sexual partner or partners
without examining the patient's partner or partners.

Subdivision two protects health care practitioners who conduct
expedited partner therapy in good faith and in accordance with this
legislation from civil or criminal liability.

Subdivision three requires the Commissioner of Health to promulgate

regulations and develop forms for patients and their partners
explaining expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted
infections that the CDC recommends.

Section two sets the effective date

JUSTIFICATION:

In 2005, the New York State passed a law to allow health care
providers with prescriptive privileges to provide expedited partner
therapy (EPT) for Chlamydia infection when the prescriber's judgment
is that the partner(s) will not seek a personal medical visit. This
law has helped improve treatment rates for partners and decrease
re-infection rates for partners.

The bill will expand the current law to include other sexually
transmitted infections that the CDC recommends for expedited partner
therapy.

EPT helps physicians and other health care providers decrease rates of
sexually transmitted infections. While expedited partner therapy in no
way replaces a face to face interaction with a health care provider,
it can help patients who otherwise would not reach out for treatment.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found through
randomized controlled tests that expedited Partner therapy has the
potential for the same success that it has shown with Chlamydia with
other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). EPT can be highly
effective in decreasing infection rates with other STIs that can be
cured by taking antibiotics by mouth, such as gonorrhea.


LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the state.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

This act shall take effect January 1, 2016.

2015-S4860 - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4860

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 22, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- 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:

  Section 1. Section 2312 of the public health law, as added by  chapter
577 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
  S  2312. Expedited partner therapy for chlamydia trachomatis infection
AND OTHER SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS.  1. Notwithstanding any other
provision of law and consistent with section two thousand three  hundred
five  of this title, a health care practitioner (who is authorized under
title eight of the education law to diagnose  and  prescribe  drugs  for
sexually  transmitted chlamydia trachomatis infection AND OTHER SEXUALLY
TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS, acting within his or her lawful scope  of  prac-
tice)   who  diagnoses  a  sexually  transmitted  chlamydia  trachomatis
infection OR OTHER  SEXUALLY  TRANSMITTED  INFECTION  in  an  individual
patient   may   prescribe,   dispense,  furnish,  or  otherwise  provide
prescription antibiotic drugs FOR THE  SEXUALLY  TRANSMITTED  INFECTIONS
FOR  WHICH THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION RECOMMENDS THE
USE OF EXPEDITED PARTNER THERAPY to that  patient's  sexual  partner  or
partners without examination of that patient's partner or partners.
  2. A health care practitioner who reasonably and in good faith renders
expedited  partner therapy in accordance with this section and following
the rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner shall  not  be
subject  to  civil or criminal liability or be deemed to have engaged in
unprofessional conduct.
  3. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations  concerning
the  implementation  of  this  section  and shall also develop forms for
patients and their partners explaining expedited partner therapy  for  a
chlamydia   trachomatis   infection    AND  OTHER  SEXUALLY  TRANSMITTED

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06153-01-5

S. 4860                             2

INFECTIONS FOR WHICH THE CENTERS  FOR  DISEASE  CONTROL  AND  PREVENTION
RECOMMENDS  THE  USE  OF EXPEDITED PARTNER THERAPY.  Such forms shall be
written in a clear and coherent manner using words with common, everyday
meanings.
  S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2016.

2015-S4860A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A2170
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2312, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: A10277
2013-2014: A1919
2017-2018: S2545, A313
2019-2020: S1799, A2998

2015-S4860A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes expedited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections.

2015-S4860A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S4860A

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing
expedited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections

 PURPOSE :

To allow for expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted
infections that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
recommend for the sexual partner or partners of someone having been
diagnosed with the disease.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section one, subdivision one allows a health care provider
practitioner who is authorized under New York State law to diagnose or
prescribe drugs for sexually transmitted infections, may prescribe or
dispense antibiotic drugs to that person's sexual partner or partners
without examining the patient's partner or partners.

Subdivision two protects health care practitioners who conduct
expedited partner therapy in good faith and in accordance with this
legislation from civil or criminal liability.

Subdivision three requires the Commissioner of Health to promulgate
regulations and develop forms for patients and their partners
explaining expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted
infections that the CDC recommends.

Section two sets the effective date

 JUSTIFICATION :

In 2005, the New York State passed a law to allow health care
providers with prescriptive privileges to provide expedited partner
therapy (EPT) for Chlamydia infection when the prescriber's judgment
is that the partner(s) will not seek a personal medical visit. This
law has helped improve treatment rates for partners and decrease
re-infection rates for partners.

The bill will expand the current law to include other sexually
transmitted infections that the CDC recommends for expedited partner
therapy.

EPT helps physicians and other health care providers decrease rates of
sexually transmitted infections. While expedited partner therapy in no
way replaces a face to face interaction with a health care provider,
it can help patients who otherwise would not reach out for treatment.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found through
randomized controlled tests that expedited Partner therapy has the
potential for the same success that it has shown with Chlamydia with
other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). EPT can be highly
effective in decreasing infection rates with other STIs that can be
cured by taking antibiotics by mouth, such as gonorrhea.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

New bill.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None to the state.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the
date on which it shall have become a law.

2015-S4860A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                 4860--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 22, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- 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 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:

  Section  1. Section 2312 of the public health law, as added by chapter
577 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
  S 2312. Expedited partner therapy for chlamydia trachomatis  infection
AND OTHER SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS.  1. Notwithstanding any other
provision  of law and consistent with section two thousand three hundred
five of this title, a health care practitioner (who is authorized  under
title  eight  of  the  education law to diagnose and prescribe drugs for
sexually transmitted chlamydia trachomatis infection AND OTHER  SEXUALLY
TRANSMITTED  INFECTIONS,  acting within his or her lawful scope of prac-
tice)  who  diagnoses  a  sexually  transmitted  chlamydia   trachomatis
infection  OR  OTHER  SEXUALLY  TRANSMITTED  INFECTION  in an individual
patient  may  prescribe,  dispense,  furnish,   or   otherwise   provide
prescription  antibiotic  drugs  FOR THE SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS
FOR WHICH THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION RECOMMENDS  THE
USE  OF  EXPEDITED  PARTNER  THERAPY to that patient's sexual partner or
partners without examination of that patient's partner or partners.
  2. A health care practitioner who reasonably and in good faith renders
expedited partner therapy in accordance with this section and  following
the  rules  and regulations promulgated by the commissioner shall not be
subject to civil or criminal liability or be deemed to have  engaged  in
unprofessional conduct.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06153-04-6

S. 4860--A                          2

  3.  The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations concerning
the implementation of this section and  shall  also  develop  forms  for
patients  and  their partners explaining expedited partner therapy for a
chlamydia  trachomatis  infection    AND  OTHER   SEXUALLY   TRANSMITTED
INFECTIONS  FOR  WHICH  THE  CENTERS  FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
RECOMMENDS THE USE OF EXPEDITED PARTNER THERAPY.   Such forms  shall  be
written in a clear and coherent manner using words with common, everyday
meanings.
  S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

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2015-S4860A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

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2015-S4860 - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4860 - Bill Text download pdf

2015-S4860A (ACTIVE) - Details

2015-S4860A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2015-S4860A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4860A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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