Assembly Bill A6410

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to contact tracing of cases of AIDS, HIV related illness or HIV infection

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  • 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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2021-A6410 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2133, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7813
2019-2020: A2357

2021-A6410 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to contact tracing of cases of AIDS, HIV related illness or HIV infection.

2021-A6410 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6410
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 17, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to contact tracing of
   cases of AIDS, HIV related illness or HIV infection
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 2133 of the public health
 law, as added by chapter 163 of the laws of 1998, are amended to read as
 follows:
   1. [Every municipal health commissioner or the  department's  district
 health officer, upon determination that such reported case or, any other
 known  case  of HIV infection merits contact tracing in order to protect
 the public health,] UPON A CASE OF AIDS,  HIV  RELATED  ILLNESS  OR  HIV
 INFECTION  BEING  REPORTED  TO  THE  COMMISSIONER,  THE DEPARTMENT shall
 CONDUCT CONTACT TRACING IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH  THROUGH
 THE  USE  OF MUNICIPAL HEALTH COMMISSIONERS OR THE DEPARTMENT'S DISTRICT
 HEALTH OFFICERS WHO WILL personally or through their qualified represen-
 tatives notify the known contacts of the  protected  individual  BY  ANY
 MEANS  NECESSARY.  Such  contact  tracing  shall be done consistent with
 protocols developed pursuant to section twenty-one hundred  thirty-seven
 of this title.
   3.  In  notifying any contact identified in the course of any investi-
 gation conducted pursuant to  this  section,  the  physician  or  public
 health officer shall not disclose the identity of the protected individ-
 ual  or  the  [identify] IDENTITY of any other contact. IN NOTIFYING ANY
 CONTACT IDENTIFIED IN THE COURSE OF ANY INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED PURSUANT
 TO THIS SECTION, THE PHYSICIAN OR PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER SHALL NOT INFORM
 THE CONTACT IN A MANNER THAT COULD BE DEEMED DAMAGING TO THE CONTACT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06486-01-1

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