STATE OF NEW YORK
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4351
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 21, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. FARLEY -- 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 liability of
health care practitioner volunteers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 260 of the public health law, as
2 amended by chapter 84 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. [No health care practitioner volunteer shall participate in the
5 health care practitioner volunteer program established pursuant to this
6 title unless, with respect to acts and omissions that occurred or
7 allegedly occurred within the scope of his or her participation in such
8 program, he or she is covered by an adequate professional liability
9 insurance policy.] A health care practitioner volunteer shall be deemed
10 to be an "employee" for purposes of section seventeen of the public
11 officers law with respect to any acts and omissions that occurred or
12 allegedly occurred within the scope of his or her participation in such
13 program.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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