Bill Text: NY S05803 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to including a lyme disease and tick-borne infection awareness and prevention program within health care and wellness education and outreach programs.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - SIGNED CHAP.167 [S05803 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5803
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 3, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sens. SERINO, AMEDORE, FARLEY, LARKIN, MARCELLINO, NOZZO-
         LIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be  commit-
         ted to the Committee on Health
       AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to including a lyme
         disease and tick-borne  infection  awareness  and  prevention  program
         within the health care and wellness education and outreach program
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public  health  law  is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (l) to read as follows:
    3    (L)  A  LYME DISEASE AND TICK-BORNE INFECTION AWARENESS AND PREVENTION
    4  PROGRAM DESIGNED TO PROMOTE THE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION METHODS AGAINST
    5  LYME DISEASE AND TICK-BORNE INFECTIONS. SUCH INFORMATION  SHALL  INCLUDE
    6  BUT  NOT  BE  LIMITED TO GUIDELINES AND METHODS OF PREVENTION, INCLUDING
    7  THE SAFE USE OF RECOMMENDED INSECT REPELLENTS, THE  BEST  PRACTICES  FOR
    8  TICK REMOVAL, RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE REDUCTION OF EXPOSURE TO TICKS AND
    9  APPROPRIATE COURSE OF ACTION ONCE A TICK IS REMOVED FROM THE BODY.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11381-01-5