Relates to reporting Lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death to the department of health according to the manner prescribed by the commissioner.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7168
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 3, 2018
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Introduced by Sens. SERINO, HANNON, AMEDORE, AVELLA, HELMING, LITTLE,
MARCHIONE, O'MARA, PHILLIPS, RITCHIE, SEWARD, TEDISCO, VALESKY -- 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 reporting of
lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Article 27-H of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new section 2799 to read as follows:
3 § 2799. Reporting of lyme and tick-borne disease infection after
4 death. If a coroner, pathologist, medical examiner, or other person
5 qualified to conduct an examination of a deceased person discovers that
6 at the time of death the individual was afflicted with lyme or other
7 tick-borne diseases, he or she shall report the case promptly to the
8 department according to the manner prescribed by the commissioner.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13684-01-7
