New York S 653: Requires the department to draft guidelines for the transition of patients from substances with a high risk of addiction to those with a low risk

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S00653 Summary:

BILL NOS00653A

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SAME ASSAME AS A06866

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SPONSORKRUEGER

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COSPNSRBAILEY, COMRIE, FERNANDEZ, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, PARKER, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SERRANO

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§2305, 17 & 18, Pub Health L

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Provides treatment for sexually transmitted diseases to minors without a parent's or guardian's consent; provides definition for health care practitioner.

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BILL NOS00653A

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

04/22/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH

04/22/2025PRINT NUMBER 653A

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 653--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, BAILEY, COMRIE, FERNANDEZ, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
 JACKSON, PARKER, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SERRANO -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
 amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing medical
 care to minors for sexually transmitted diseases without a parent's or
 guardian's consent

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

 1 Section 1. Section 2305 of the public health law, as amended by chap-
 2 ter 878 of the laws of 1980, the section heading and subdivisions 1 and
 3 2 as amended by section 35 of part E of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013,
 4 is amended to read as follows:
 5 § 2305. Sexually transmitted diseases; care and treatment [by licensed
 6 physician or staff physician of a hospital; prescriptions]; consent by
 7 minors. 1. No person, other than a [licensed physician, or, in a hospi-
 8 tal, a staff physician] health care practitioner, shall diagnose, treat
 9 or prescribe for a person who is infected with a sexually transmitted
 10 disease, or who has been exposed to infection with a sexually transmit-
 11 ted disease, or dispense or sell a drug, medicine or remedy for the
 12 treatment of such person except on prescription of a [duly licensed
 13 physician] health care practitioner.
 14 2. (a) A [licensed physician, or in a hospital, a staff physician,]
 15 health care practitioner may diagnose, treat or prescribe treatment for
 16 a sexually transmitted disease for a person under the age of [twenty-
 17 one] eighteen years without the consent or knowledge of the parents or
 18 [guardian] guardians of said person, where such person is infected with
 19 a sexually transmitted disease, or has been exposed to infection with a
 20 sexually transmitted disease.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02487-03-5

 S. 653--A 2

 1 (b) A health care practitioner may provide health care related to the
 2 prevention of a sexually transmitted disease, including administering
 3 vaccines, to a person under the age of eighteen years without the
 4 consent or knowledge of the parents or guardians of such person,
 5 provided that the person has capacity to consent to the care, without
 6 regard to the person's age, and the person consents.
 7 (c) Any release of patient information regarding vaccines provided
 8 under this section shall be consistent with sections seventeen and eigh-
 9 teen of this chapter and other applicable laws and regulations.
 10 3. For the purposes of this section, [the term]
 11 (a) "hospital" shall mean a hospital as defined in article twenty-
 12 eight of this chapter; and
 13 (b) "health care practitioner" shall mean a person licensed, certified
 14 or otherwise authorized to practice medicine under title eight of the
 15 education law, acting within their lawful scope of practice.
 16 § 2. The first undesignated paragraph of section 17 of the public
 17 health law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2017, is amended to
 18 read as follows:
 19 Upon the written request of any competent patient, parent or guardian
 20 of an infant, a guardian appointed pursuant to article