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S04539 Summary:

BILL NOS04539 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSTEC

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COSPNSRMURRAY, TEDISCO

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §206-b, Pub Health L

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Establishes a pilot program for Lyme and tick-borne disease testing in children.

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BILL NOS04539 

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02/06/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4539

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 6, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. STEC, TEDISCO -- 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 creating a pilot
 program for Lyme and tick-borne disease testing in children

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 206-b of the public health law, as added by chapter
 2 260 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 206-b. Lyme and tick-borne disease. 1. Special requirements with
 4 respect to Lyme disease diagnosis. [1.] a. Within thirty days after the
 5 effective date of this section, the commissioner shall, in writing,
 6 order every physician practicing in Suffolk, Westchester and Nassau
 7 counties to review the medical records of any patient such physician
 8 treated during the period commencing January first, nineteen hundred
 9 seventy-five and ending on the date of such order wherein such physician
 10 made a diagnosis of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and to review the
 11 circumstances of such diagnosis to reconsider whether such patient has
 12 suffered, or is suffering, from the complex, multi-system disorder
 13 caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which disease is transmit-
 14 ted by the Ixodes dammini tick and is commonly referred to as "Lyme
 15 disease". In any case where a hospital or other health care institution
 16 or provider has custody or control of the medical records for a patient
 17 so diagnosed, upon request such physician shall be entitled to review
 18 such medical records for purposes of complying with such order or the
 19 commissioner may order any such hospital or other health care institu-
 20 tion or provider wherever situated within the state to review such
 21 records to reconsider a diagnosis of Lyme disease.
 22 [2.] b. The commissioner, upon a showing that there is a reasonable
 23 basis to believe that the order provided for herein has not been
 24 complied with, shall be entitled to apply to a justice of the supreme
 25 court for an order requiring any such physician to submit for the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08948-01-5

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 1 commissioner's consideration such records, charts or other pertinent
 2 data which will enable [him] such commissioner to determine whether
 3 there has been full compliance with such order.
 4 [3.] c. In any case where a review of such records indicates that a
 5 patient may have been, or is, suffering from Lyme disease, such physi-
 6 cian shall, consistent with customary and acceptable medical standards,
 7 take such action [he] such physician deems necessary to inform such
 8 patient or in the case of a minor, [his or her] such patient's parent or
 9 guardian of [his] such physician's findings, conduct additional tests,
 10 administer other necessary treatments or refer such patient to another
 11 physician for further diagnosis and/or treatment.
 12 2. Pilot program for Lyme and tick-borne disease testing in children.
 13 a. Subject to appropriation, the commissioner is hereby authorized to
 14 establish a pilot program to test for Lyme and tick-borne diseases in
 15 children with qualifying diagnoses who present with similar symptoms.
 16 Such program, subject to the rules and regulations of the commissioner,
 17 shall provide for a test to rule out Lyme and tick-borne diseases in
 18 children with a qualifying diagnosis by an approved New York state qual-
 19 ified medical research institution or laboratory, at the request