Bill Text: NY A02357 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A02357 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02357-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2357
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        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:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 2133 of the  public  health
     2  law, as added by chapter 163 of the laws of 1998, are amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  [Every  municipal health commissioner or the department's district
     5  health officer, upon determination that such reported case or, any other
     6  known case of HIV infection merits contact tracing in order  to  protect
     7  the  public  health,]  Upon  a  case of AIDS, HIV related illness or HIV
     8  infection being reported  to  the  commissioner,  the  department  shall
     9  conduct  contact  tracing  in order to protect the public health through
    10  the use of municipal health commissioners or the  department's  district
    11  health officers who will personally or through their qualified represen-
    12  tatives  notify  the  known  contacts of the protected individual by any
    13  means necessary. Such contact tracing  shall  be  done  consistent  with
    14  protocols  developed pursuant to section twenty-one hundred thirty-seven
    15  of this title.
    16    3. In notifying any contact identified in the course of  any  investi-
    17  gation  conducted  pursuant  to  this  section,  the physician or public
    18  health officer shall not disclose the identity of the protected individ-
    19  ual or the [identify] identity of any other contact.  In  notifying  any
    20  contact identified in the course of any investigation conducted pursuant
    21  to this section, the physician or public health officer shall not inform
    22  the contact in a manner that could be deemed damaging to the contact.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00369-01-9