New York A 6866: Relates to third party litigation financing

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A06866 Summary:

BILL NOA06866 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00653-A

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSRSimon

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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 NOA06866 

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03/14/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6866

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Health

 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.
 21 (b) A health care practitioner may provide health care related to the
 22 prevention of a sexually transmitted disease, including administering
 23 vaccines, to a person under the age of eighteen years without the
 24 consent or knowledge of the parents or guardians of such person,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02487-02-5

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 1 provided that the person has capacity to consent to the care, without
 2 regard to the person's age, and the person consents.
 3 (c) Any release of patient information regarding vaccines provided
 4 under this section shall be consistent with sections seventeen and eigh-
 5 teen of this chapter and other applicable laws and regulations.
 6 3. For the purposes of this section, [the term]
 7 (a) "hospital" shall mean a hospital as defined in article twenty-
 8 eight of this chapter; and
 9 (b) "health care practitioner" shall mean a person licensed, certified
 10 or otherwise authorized to practice medicine under title eight of the
 11 education law, acting within their lawful scope of practice.
 12 § 2. The first undesignated paragraph of section 17 of the public
 13 health law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2017, is amended to
 14 read as follows:
 15 Upon the written request of any competent patient, parent or guardian
 16 of an infant, a guardian appointed pursuant to article eighty-one of the
 17 mental hygiene law, or conservator of a conservatee, an examining,
 18 consulting or treating physician or hospital must release and deliver,
 19 exclusive of personal notes of the said physician or hospital, copies of
 20 all x-rays, medical records and test records including all laboratory
 21 tests regarding that patient to any other designated physician or hospi-
 22 tal provided,