Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Apr 25, 2022 |
referred to health |
Senate Bill S8849
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 47th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2021-S8849 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §2180, add §2183, Pub Health L
2021-S8849 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S8849 SPONSOR: HOYLMAN TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing a long COVID-19 review board PURPOSE: To examine the long-term health impacts of COVID-19 on those who have had COVID-19. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 lays out the legislative intent of the bill and the importance of the state monitoring the long-term health effects of COVID-19 on New Yorkers who have contracted the virus. Section 2 amends section 2180 of the public health to define "Long COVID."
2021-S8849 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8849 I N S E N A T E April 25, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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 establishing a long COVID-19 review board THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds, determines and declares that COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the state of New York. Since the first recorded death of a New York resident from the virus on March fourteenth, two thousand twenty, tens of thousands of New Yorkers have lost their lives to COVID-19. The sudden emergence and rapid spread of COVID-19 around the world has led to an evolving under- standing of the transmissibility, virulence, and symptoms of the virus by scientists and public health experts that continues to this day. There is growing awareness and concern about post-COVID conditions, sometimes referred to as "long COVID," in which a small but significant percentage of patients experience persistent symptoms weeks or months after recovering from their initial infection. It is vital that the state of New York commit to monitoring and tracking the long-term health impacts of COVID-19, even as effective vaccines are widely available. Studying New Yorkers who survived COVID-19 infection holds the promise of providing public health experts with information that may lead to a better understanding of trends in long-term illness and recovery, and the needs of survivors, particularly those suffering from post-COVID conditions. § 2. Section 2180 of the public health law is amended by adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows: 12. "LONG COVID" MEANS SYMPTOMS THAT PERSIST AFTER THE ACUTE COVID-19 INFECTION HAS RESOLVED. § 3. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2183 to read as follows: § 2183. LONG COVID-19 STUDY. 1. THERE IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED IN THE DEPARTMENT THE LONG COVID-19 REVIEW BOARD FOR THE PURPOSE OF REVIEWING THE RESEARCH AND DATA IN THE STATE ON LONG COVID AND DEVELOPING AND EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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