Provides that the division of parole shall disclose certain confidential HIV related information to the appropriate public health officer for purposes of informing contacts.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4988
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 10, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. MAYERSOHN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing employ-
ees and agents of the division of parole to disclose to the appropri-
ate public health officer certain HIV related information for the
purpose of informing contacts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (l) of subdivision 1 of section 2782 of the
2 public health law, as added by chapter 584 of the laws of 1988, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (l) an employee or agent of the division of parole[,]; (1) in accord-
5 ance with paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section twenty-seven
6 hundred eighty-six of this article, to the extent the employee or agent
7 is authorized to access records containing such information in order to
8 carry out the division's functions, powers and duties with respect to
9 the protected individual, pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-a
10 of the executive law; and
11 (2) shall disclose such confidential HIV related information to the
12 appropriate public health officer for the purpose of making the disclo-
13 sure to a contact or contacts as such is defined by section twenty-seven
14 hundred eighty of this article. Such disclosure shall be done in a
15 manner consistent with considerations and provisions set forth in subdi-
16 vision four of this section;
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08652-01-1
