STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 the  reporting  of
          lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2799 to read as follows:
     3    §  2799.  Reporting  of  lyme  and  tick-borne disease infection after
     4  death. If a coroner, pathologist,  medical  examiner,  or  other  person
     5  qualified  to conduct an examination of a deceased person discovers that
     6  at the time of death the individual was afflicted  with  lyme  or  other
     7  tick-borne  diseases,  as  determined  by the commissioner, the coroner,
     8  pathologist, medical examiner or other qualified person shall report the
     9  case promptly to the department according to the  manner  prescribed  by
    10  the commissioner.
    11    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    12  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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