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                                   3661
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 25, 2017
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 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 and the education law, in relation
   to quality assurance and peer review activities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 2805-m of the public health law,
 as amended by chapter 808 of the laws of 1987, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  Notwithstanding  any other provisions of law, none of the records,
 documentation or committee  actions  or  records  required  pursuant  to
 sections  twenty-eight hundred five-j and twenty-eight hundred five-k of
 this article, the reports  required  pursuant  to  section  twenty-eight
 hundred  five-l  of this article nor any incident reporting requirements
 imposed upon diagnostic and treatment centers pursuant to the provisions
 of this chapter shall be subject to disclosure under article six of  the
 public  officers law or article thirty-one of the civil practice law and
 rules, except as hereinafter  provided  or  as  provided  by  any  other
 provision  of  law.  No  person  in  attendance at a meeting of any such
 committee shall be required to testify as to  what  transpired  thereat.
 [The]  FURTHERMORE,  THE  prohibition relating to discovery of testimony
 shall [not] apply to the statements made by any person in attendance  at
 such  a  meeting  who  is a party to an action or proceeding the subject
 matter of which was reviewed at such meeting.
   § 2. The closing paragraph of subdivision 3 of  section  6527  of  the
 education law, as amended by chapter 257 of the laws of 1987, is amended
 to read as follows:
   Neither  the  proceedings nor the records relating to performance of a
 medical or a quality assurance review function  or  participation  in  a
 medical  and  dental  malpractice  prevention  program  nor  any  report
 required by the department of health pursuant  to  section  twenty-eight
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 hundred  five-l of the public health law described herein, including the
 investigation of an incident reported pursuant to section 29.29  of  the
 mental  hygiene  law, shall be subject to disclosure under article thir-
 ty-one  of  the  civil  practice  law  and  rules  except as hereinafter
 provided or as provided by any other provision  of  law.  No  person  in
 attendance  at a meeting when a medical or a quality assurance review or
 a medical and dental  malpractice  prevention  program  or  an  incident
 reporting  function described herein was performed, including the inves-
 tigation of an incident reported pursuant to section 29.29 of the mental
 hygiene law, shall be required to testify as to what transpired thereat.
 [The] FURTHERMORE, THE prohibition relating to  discovery  of  testimony
 shall  [not] apply to the statements made by any person in attendance at
 such a meeting who is a party to an action  or  proceeding  the  subject
 matter of which was reviewed at such meeting.
   §  3.  Section  6530  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 50 to read as follows:
   50. FAILURE TO COOPERATE  AND  PARTICIPATE,  REASONABLY  AND  IN  GOOD
 FAITH,  IN  THE  QUALITY  ASSURANCE, INCIDENT REPORTING, AND PEER REVIEW
 PROGRAMS, ACTIVITIES, REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES COVERED BY THE  CONFI-
 DENTIALITY  PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION  TWENTY-EIGHT  HUNDRED FIVE-M OF THE
 PUBLIC HEALTH LAW OR CLAUSE (A), (B), (D) OR (E) OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF
 SECTION SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN OF THIS TITLE.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.