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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         2170--B
                                                                Cal. No. 104
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 15, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. SCHIMEL, LAVINE, JAFFEE, GOTTFRIED, COOK, ROSEN-
          THAL, ROBINSON, GALEF, MAGNARELLI,  GUNTHER,  LINARES,  WEPRIN,  McDO-
          NOUGH,  DAVILA,  STECK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, BREN-
          NAN, CLARK, CROUCH, FINCH, McLAUGHLIN, MOYA, SIMANOWITZ --  read  once
          and  referred  to the Committee on Health -- advanced to a third read-
          ing, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on  the  order
          of  third  reading  -- passed by Assembly and delivered to the Senate,
          recalled from the Senate, vote  reconsidered,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
 
        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing expe-
          dited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Section 2312 of the public health law, as added by chapter
     2  577 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 2312. Expedited partner therapy for chlamydia trachomatis  infection
     4  and other sexually transmitted infections.  1. Notwithstanding any other
     5  provision  of law and consistent with section two thousand three hundred
     6  five of this title, a health care practitioner (who is authorized  under
     7  title  eight  of  the  education law to diagnose and prescribe drugs for
     8  sexually transmitted chlamydia trachomatis infection and other  sexually
     9  transmitted  infections,  acting within his or her lawful scope of prac-
    10  tice)  who  diagnoses  a  sexually  transmitted  chlamydia   trachomatis
    11  infection  or  other  sexually  transmitted  infection  in an individual
    12  patient  may  prescribe,  dispense,  furnish,   or   otherwise   provide
    13  prescription  antibiotic  drugs  for the sexually transmitted infections
    14  for which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends  the
    15  use  of  expedited  partner  therapy to that patient's sexual partner or
    16  partners without examination of that patient's partner or partners.
    17    2. A health care practitioner who reasonably and in good faith renders
    18  expedited partner therapy in accordance with this section and  following
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06153-05-6
        A. 2170--B                          2
 
     1  the  rules  and regulations promulgated by the commissioner shall not be
     2  subject to civil or criminal liability or be deemed to have  engaged  in
     3  unprofessional conduct.
     4    3.  The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations concerning
     5  the implementation of this section and  shall  also  develop  forms  for
     6  patients  and  their partners explaining expedited partner therapy for a
     7  chlamydia  trachomatis  infection    and  other   sexually   transmitted
     8  infections  for  which  the  Centers  for Disease Control and Prevention
     9  recommends the use of expedited partner therapy.   Such forms  shall  be
    10  written in a clear and coherent manner using words with common, everyday
    11  meanings.
    12    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    13  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.