S 29: Relates to the reporting of lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 29 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 the reporting of lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 2799 to read as follows: 3 § 2799. Reporting of lyme and tick-borne disease infection after 4 death. If a coroner, pathologist, medical examiner, or other person 5 qualified to conduct an examination of a deceased person discovers that 6 at the time of death the individual was afflicted with lyme or other 7 tick-borne diseases, as determined by the commissioner, the coroner, 8 pathologist, medical examiner or other qualified person shall report the 9 case promptly to the department according to the manner prescribed by 10 the commissioner. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00274-01-5