Senate Bill S8715

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to HIV reporting

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S8715 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4053
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2135, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S7682, A10182

2017-S8715 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits sharing of patient HIV information for purposes of care coordination.

2017-S8715 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8715 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8715
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 access to HIV
   surveillance information for purposes of care coordination
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  2135  of  the  public  health law, as amended by
 section 3 of part A of chapter 60 of the laws of  2014,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   §  2135.  Confidentiality.  All  reports or information secured by the
 department, municipal health commissioner  or  district  health  officer
 under  the provisions of this title shall be confidential except: (a) in
 so far as is necessary to carry out the provisions of  this  title;  (b)
 when  used in the aggregate, without patient specific identifying infor-
 mation, in programs approved by the commissioner for the improvement  of
 the  quality of medical care provided to persons with HIV/AIDS; (c) when
 used within the state  or  local  health  department  by  public  health
 disease programs to assess co-morbidity or completeness of reporting and
 to  direct  program  needs,  in  which case patient specific identifying
 information shall not be disclosed outside the  state  or  local  health
 department;  or  (d)  when  used  for purposes of patient linkage [and],
 retention in care, AND CARE COORDINATION,  patient  specific  identified
 information  may  be  shared  between local and state health departments
 [and], health care providers AND  CARE  COORDINATION  SYSTEMS  currently
 treating  the  patient  as approved by the commissioner. FOR PURPOSES OF
 THIS SECTION, CARE  COORDINATION  SHALL  MEAN  MANAGING,  REFERRING  TO,
 LOCATING, COORDINATING, AND MONITORING HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR AN INDI-
 VIDUAL  TO  ASSURE THAT ALL MEDICALLY NECESSARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES ARE
 MADE AVAILABLE TO AND ARE EFFECTIVELY USED BY THE INDIVIDUAL IN A TIMELY
 MANNER, CONSISTENT WITH PATIENT AUTONOMY, WHERE CONDUCTED BY OR WITH THE
 PARTICIPATION OF THE PATIENT'S HEALTH CARE PROVIDER AND NOT CONDUCTED BY
 OR ON BEHALF OF THE PATIENT'S THIRD-PARTY PAYER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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