Senate Bill S7169

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to tick-borne disease testing in children

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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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2017-S7169 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10186
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §206-b, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S1306
2021-2022: S2148
2023-2024: S4508

2017-S7169 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a pilot program for Lyme and tick-borne disease testing in children.

2017-S7169 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7169 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7169
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 3, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SERINO,  HANNON, AMEDORE, AVELLA, FUNKE, HELMING,
   LITTLE, MARCHIONE, O'MARA, PHILLIPS, RITCHIE, SEWARD, TEDISCO, VALESKY
   -- 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 creating  a  pilot
   program for Lyme and tick-borne disease testing in children
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 206-b of the public health law, as added by chapter
 260 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
   § 206-b. LYME AND TICK-BORNE DISEASE.  1.  Special  requirements  with
 respect to Lyme disease diagnosis.  [1.] A. Within thirty days after the
 effective  date  of  this  section,  the commissioner shall, in writing,
 order every physician practicing  in  Suffolk,  Westchester  and  Nassau
 counties  to  review  the  medical records of any patient such physician
 treated during the period commencing  January  first,  nineteen  hundred
 seventy-five and ending on the date of such order wherein such physician
 made  a  diagnosis  of  juvenile  rheumatoid arthritis and to review the
 circumstances of such diagnosis to reconsider whether such  patient  has
 suffered,  or  is  suffering,  from  the  complex, multi-system disorder
 caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which disease is transmit-
 ted by the Ixodes dammini tick and is  commonly  referred  to  as  "Lyme
 disease".  In any case where a hospital or other health care institution
 or provider has custody or control of the medical records for a  patient
 so  diagnosed,  upon  request such physician shall be entitled to review
 such medical records for purposes of complying with such  order  or  the
 commissioner  may  order any such hospital or other health care institu-
 tion or provider wherever situated  within  the  state  to  review  such
 records to reconsider a diagnosis of Lyme disease.
   [2.]  B.  The  commissioner, upon a showing that there is a reasonable
 basis to believe that  the  order  provided  for  herein  has  not  been
 complied  with,  shall  be entitled to apply to a justice of the supreme
 court for an order requiring  any  such  physician  to  submit  for  the
 
              

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