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Assembly Bill A11328

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires reporting of the tick-borne disease of Alpha-gal syndrome

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2025-A11328 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §206-c, Pub Health L

2025-A11328 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires reporting of the tick-borne disease of Alpha-gal syndrome.

2025-A11328 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11328
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 11, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Schiavoni)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  the  reportable
   tick-borne disease of Alpha-gal syndrome
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 206-c to read as follows:
   §  206-C.  SPECIAL  REQUIREMENTS  FOR ALPHA-GAL SYNDROME DIAGNOSIS AND
 SURVEILLANCE. 1. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS
 TO ESTABLISH ALPHA-GAL SYNDROME, A SERIOUS AND POTENTIALLY  LIFE-THREAT-
 ENING  ALLERGIC  CONDITION  TRIGGERED  BY  A  TICK BITE, AS A REPORTABLE
 DISEASE OR CONDITION FOR THE PURPOSE OF REQUIRING  HEALTH  CARE  PRACTI-
 TIONERS  AND  FACILITIES  TO  REPORT INSTANCES OF DIAGNOSIS OF ALPHA-GAL
 SYNDROME.
   2. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  EXPAND  THE  LIST  OF  TICK-BORNE  DISEASES
 INCLUDED  WITHIN THE TICK-BORNE DISEASE SURVEILLANCE REPORT SUBMITTED BY
 THE DEPARTMENT'S BUREAU  OF  COMMUNICABLE  DISEASE  CONTROL  TO  INCLUDE
 ALPHA-GAL SYNDROME.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15769-01-6

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