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Assembly Bill A439

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the control and reporting of communicable diseases

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2017-A439 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2120, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A6873

2017-A439 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the control and reporting of communicable diseases.

2017-A439 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    439
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  the  control  and
   reporting of communicable diseases
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 2120 of the public health law is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 2120. Communicable  diseases;  control  of  dangerous  and  careless
 patients;  commitment.  1. [Whenever] THE HEALTH OFFICER SHALL FORTHWITH
 INVESTIGATE THE CIRCUMSTANCES ALLEGED WHENEVER a complaint is made by  a
 physician  to  a  health officer that any person is afflicted with OR IS
 SUSPECTED TO BE AFFLICTED WITH a communicable disease or is a carrier of
 [typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria or other communicable  disease]
 ANY  OF  THE  FOLLOWING  DISEASES  and is unable or unwilling to conduct
 himself and to live in such a manner as not to  expose  members  of  his
 family  or  household or other persons with whom he may be associated to
 danger of infection[, the health officer shall forthwith investigate the
 circumstances alleged.]:
   AMEBIASIS
   ANAPLASMOSIS (HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS)
   ANIMAL BITE, OR EXPOSURE TO RABIES
   ANTHRAX
   ARBOVIRAL INFECTIONS, ACUTE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE  FOLLOW-
      ING VIRUSES: CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS, DENGUE, EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS
      VIRUS,  JAMESTOWN  CANYON  VIRUS,  JAPANESE  ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, LA
      CROSSE VIRUS, POWASSAN VIRUS, RIFT VALLEY FEVER  VIRUS,  ST.  LOUIS
      ENCEPHALITIS  VIRUS,  WESTERN  OR  VENEZUELAN  EQUINE  ENCEPHALITIS
      VIRUS, WEST NILE VIRUS AND YELLOW FEVER)
   BABESIOSIS
   BOTULISM (INCLUDING INFANT, FOODBORNE AND WOUND BOTULISM)
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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