Expands the duties of the commissioner of public health to include notifying the patient or patients of a health care provider if such health care provider is determined to have exposed such patient or patients to a communicable disease through reckless conduct; includes exposing patients to a communicable disease due to reckless conduct in the definition of professional medical malpractice.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1314
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, MOSLEY, RIVERA, GALEF, OTIS, ABINANTI,
RAIA, BARCLAY, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
COOK, MOYA, SALADINO -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding the
duties of the commissioner of health to notify the patient or patients
of a health care provider if such health care provider is determined
to have exposed such patient or patients to a communicable disease
through reckless conduct; and to amend the education law, in relation
to including exposing patients to a communicable disease due to reck-
less conduct in the definition of professional medical malpractice
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 206 of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows:
3 (w) notify the patient or patients of a health care provider if such
4 health care provider is determined to have exposed such patient or
5 patients to a communicable disease through reckless conduct, including,
6 but not limited to, the reuse of a syringe, needle or other sharp.
7 § 2. Section 6530 of the education law is amended by adding a new
8 subdivision 50 to read as follows:
9 50. Exposing patients to a communicable disease due to reckless
10 conduct, including, but not limited to, the reuse of a syringe, needle
11 or other sharp.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04438-01-7
