STATE OF NEW YORK
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29
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
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, the coroner,
8 pathologist, medical examiner or other qualified person shall report the
9 case promptly to the department according to the manner prescribed by
10 the commissioner.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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