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Assembly Bill A3118

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 viruses

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2021-A3118 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §207, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A8811
2019-2020: A5732
2023-2024: A3526
2025-2026: A6857

2021-A3118 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes the HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 viruses to the public health department's health care and wellness education and outreach program.

2021-A3118 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3118
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. COOK, TAGUE, JEAN-PIERRE, HYNDMAN, SAYEGH, DICK-
   ENS, COLTON, WILLIAMS, FERNANDEZ, MONTESANO, McDONOUGH,  DeSTEFANO  --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to the HTLV-1 and
   HTLV-2 viruses

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 207 of the public health law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (p) to read as follows:
   (P) THE DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND  PREVENTION  OF  HTLV-1  AND  HTLV-2,
 INCLUDING  INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE ON WHERE TO FIND COMMUNITY SUPPORT
 SERVICES, SUPPORT GROUPS, RESPITE, AND CARE MANAGEMENT. IN INSTANCES  IN
 WHICH  VIRAL  TYPING  IS POSSIBLE, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS SHALL DIRECT TO
 VIRUS SPECIFIC COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES, SUPPORT GROUPS, RESPITE,  AND
 CARE MANAGEMENT AS HTLV-1 AND HTLV-2 ARE TWO DIFFERENT RETROVIRUSES WITH
 DIFFERING  EPIDEMIOLOGIES  AND  DISEASE  ASSOCIATIONS REQUIRING SPECIFIC
 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PERSONS INFECTED WITH HTLV-1 OR HTLV-2. SUCH MATERI-
 ALS SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO CLINICS THAT SPECIALIZE IN SEXUALLY TRAN-
 SMITTED DISEASES, HEALTH CARE FACILITIES, AND DEPARTMENT OF  CORRECTIONS
 AND  COMMUNITY  SUPERVISION  FACILITIES.  ALL  INFORMATION AND MATERIALS
 SHALL BE MAINTAINED AND UPDATED TO REFLECT BEST PRACTICE RECOMMENDATIONS
 AND SHALL BE CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY APPROPRIATE FOR THE  COMMUNI-
 TIES THE MATERIALS ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06596-02-1

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