Bill Text: NY S08108 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grants access to confidential HIV and AIDS information, to the health care providers who have treated a patient and to the managed care organization insuring the patient.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-16 - referred to health [S08108 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S08108-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8108
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 13, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to access to AIDS and
          HIV infection information
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision (d) of section 2135 of the public health law,
     2  as amended by section 3 of part A of chapter 60 of the laws of 2014,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (d)  when  used for purposes of patient linkage and retention in care,
     5  patient specific identified information may be shared between local  and
     6  state  health departments [and], health care providers [currently treat-
     7  ing] who have treated the patient and a managed care  organization  that
     8  insures the patient as approved by the commissioner.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15857-01-6