Bill Text: NY S06928 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for a myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome ("ME/CFS") education and outreach program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-11 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7712B [S06928 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06928-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6928--B Cal. No. 519 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 20, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, CLEARE, COONEY, GAUGHRAN, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KAPLAN, RAMOS, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accord- ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend public health law, in relation to the myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome 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 (q) to read as follows: 3 (q) Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome ("ME/CFS"), a 4 multi-system disease associated with neurological, immunological and 5 energy metabolism impairment characterized by long-standing and debili- 6 tating fatigue. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 8 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11614-04-2
