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Assembly Bill A7813

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to contact tracing of cases of AIDS, HIV related illness or HIV infection

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2017-A7813 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2133, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A2357
2021-2022: A6410

2017-A7813 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to contact tracing of cases of AIDS, HIV related illness or HIV infection.

2017-A7813 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7813
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 16, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to contact tracing of
   cases of AIDS, HIV related illness or HIV infection
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 2133 of the  public  health
 law, as added by chapter 163 of the laws of 1998, are amended to read as
 follows:
   1.  [Every  municipal health commissioner or the department's district
 health officer, upon determination that such reported case or, any other
 known case of HIV infection merits contact tracing in order  to  protect
 the  public  health,]  UPON  A  CASE OF AIDS, HIV RELATED ILLNESS OR HIV
 INFECTION BEING REPORTED  TO  THE  COMMISSIONER,  THE  DEPARTMENT  shall
 CONDUCT  CONTACT  TRACING  IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH
 THE USE OF MUNICIPAL HEALTH COMMISSIONERS OR THE  DEPARTMENT'S  DISTRICT
 HEALTH OFFICERS WHO WILL personally or through their qualified represen-
 tatives  notify  the  known  contacts of the protected individual BY ANY
 MEANS NECESSARY. Such contact tracing  shall  be  done  consistent  with
 protocols  developed pursuant to section twenty-one hundred thirty-seven
 of this title.
   3. In notifying any contact identified in the course of  any  investi-
 gation  conducted  pursuant  to  this  section,  the physician or public
 health officer shall not disclose the identity of the protected individ-
 ual or the [identify] IDENTITY of any other contact.  IN  NOTIFYING  ANY
 CONTACT IDENTIFIED IN THE COURSE OF ANY INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED PURSUANT
 TO THIS SECTION, THE PHYSICIAN OR PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER SHALL NOT INFORM
 THE CONTACT IN A MANNER THAT COULD BE DEEMED DAMAGING TO THE CONTACT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11407-01-7

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