STATE OF NEW YORK
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677--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, GAUGHRAN, HINCHEY -- 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 accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
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, he or she shall
8 report the case promptly to the department according to the manner
9 prescribed by the commissioner.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03901-04-2
