Bill Text: NY A02882 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the disclosure of the list of practitioners registered to certify patients for the use of medical marihuana; provides that if the practitioner notifies the department in writing that he or she does not want his or her name and other information disclosed, such information shall not be provided on the website.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-21 - substituted by s5627 [A02882 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02882-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2882
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to disclosure of  the
          list  of  practitioners  registered to certify patients for the use of
          medical marihuana
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 3369 of the public health law, as
     2  added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     3    4. (a) Certification applications, certification forms, any  certified
     4  patient  information contained within a database, and copies of registry
     5  identification cards shall be deemed exempt from public disclosure under
     6  sections eighty-seven and eighty-nine of the public officers law.
     7    (b) The name, contact information, and other information  relating  to
     8  practitioners  registered  with the department under this title shall be
     9  public information and shall be maintained by the  commissioner  on  the
    10  department's website accessible to the public in searchable form. Howev-
    11  er,  if a practitioner notifies the department in writing that he or she
    12  does not want his or her name  and  other  information  disclosed,  that
    13  practitioner's name and other information shall thereafter not be public
    14  information  or maintained on the department's website, unless the prac-
    15  titioner cancels the request.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect sixty days after  it  shall  become  a
    17  law;  provided  that  effective immediately: (a) the addition, amendment
    18  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    19  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
    20  completed  on  or  before such effective date; and (b) practitioners may
    21  make requests under paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of  section  3369  of
    22  the  public  health  law,  as added by section one of this act. Provided
    23  further, that the amendments to subdivision 4 of  section  3369  of  the
    24  public  health  law made by section one of this act shall not affect the
    25  repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05534-01-7