STATE OF NEW YORK
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2998
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE, GUNTHER, DILAN, STECK, WEPRIN,
L. ROSENTHAL, GALEF, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, COOK, LAVINE, MAGNARELLI,
McDONOUGH, DAVILA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, CROUCH,
FINCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
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
19 the rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner shall not be
20 subject to civil or criminal liability or be deemed to have engaged in
21 unprofessional conduct.
22 3. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations concerning
23 the implementation of this section and shall also develop forms for
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 patients and their partners explaining expedited partner therapy for a
2 chlamydia trachomatis infection and other sexually transmitted
3 infections for which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4 recommends the use of expedited partner therapy. Such forms shall be
5 written in a clear and coherent manner using words with common, everyday
6 meanings.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
8 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
