STATE OF NEW YORK
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5030
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 2, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. DUANE -- 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 requiring confi-
dentiality of reports and information relating to tests for sexually
transmissible diseases
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2308-a of the public health law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. All reports or information secured by the department, municipal
4 health commissioner or district health officer under the provisions of
5 this title shall be confidential except:
6 (a) insofar as disclosure is necessary to carry out the provisions of
7 this title;
8 (b) when used in the aggregate, without patient specific identifying
9 information, in programs approved by the commissioner for the improve-
10 ment of the quality of medical care provided to persons with sexually
11 transmissible diseases; or
12 (c) when used within the state or local health department by public
13 health disease programs to assess co-morbidity or completeness of
14 reporting and to direct program needs, in which case patient specific
15 identifying information shall not be disclosed outside the state or
16 local health department.
17 § 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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