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S05627 Summary:

BILL NOS05627
 
SAME ASSAME AS A02882
 
SPONSORSAVINO
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §3369, Pub Health L
 
Relates to the disclosure of the list of practitioners registered to certify patients for the use of medical marihuana; provides that if the practitioner notifies the department in writing that he or she does not want his or her name and other information disclosed, such information shall not be provided on the website.
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S05627 Actions:

BILL NOS05627
 
04/21/2017REFERRED TO HEALTH
06/20/2017COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
06/20/2017ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.2039
06/20/2017PASSED SENATE
06/20/2017DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
06/20/2017referred to ways and means
06/21/2017substituted for a2882
06/21/2017ordered to third reading cal.399
06/21/2017passed assembly
06/21/2017returned to senate
11/17/2017DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
11/29/2017SIGNED CHAP.438
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S05627 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5627
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 21, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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 disclosure of  the
          list  of  practitioners  registered to certify patients for the use of
          medical marihuana

          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 3369 of the public health law, as
     2  added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     3    4. (a) Certification applications, certification forms, any  certified
     4  patient  information contained within a database, and copies of registry
     5  identification cards shall be deemed exempt from public disclosure under
     6  sections eighty-seven and eighty-nine of the public officers law.
     7    (b) The name, contact information, and other information  relating  to
     8  practitioners  registered  with the department under this title shall be
     9  public information and shall be maintained by the  commissioner  on  the
    10  department's website accessible to the public in searchable form. Howev-
    11  er,  if a practitioner notifies the department in writing that he or she
    12  does not want his or her name  and  other  information  disclosed,  that
    13  practitioner's name and other information shall thereafter not be public
    14  information  or maintained on the department's website, unless the prac-
    15  titioner cancels the request.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect sixty days after  it  shall  become  a
    17  law;  provided  that  effective immediately: (a) the addition, amendment
    18  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    19  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
    20  completed  on  or  before such effective date; and (b) practitioners may
    21  make requests under paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of  section  3369  of
    22  the  public  health  law,  as added by section one of this act. Provided
    23  further, that the amendments to subdivision 4 of  section  3369  of  the
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05534-01-7

        S. 5627                             2
 
     1  public  health  law made by section one of this act shall not affect the
     2  repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
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