What's happening
This bill allows health care practitioners to provide expedited partner therapy for additional sexually transmitted infections as recommended by the CDC.
Why it matters
Expands the scope of expedited partner therapy (EPT). The bill allows healthcare providers to offer EPT for a broader range of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) beyond just chlamydia, specifically including any infections for which the CDC recommends this approach. This could lead to earlier treatment and reduced spread of multiple STIs in the community.
Empowers providers to act without direct partner examination. By permitting providers to prescribe or furnish medication to partners without needing to examine them, the bill removes barriers that often prevent partners from receiving timely treatment, potentially curbing reinfection and ongoing transmission.
Offers legal protection for good faith actions. The bill explicitly shields healthcare practitioners from civil or criminal liability and professional misconduct charges when they provide EPT in accordance with the law and regulations, encouraging more providers to utilize this public health tool.
Mandates clear patient and partner information. The legislation requires the development of easy-to-understand informational forms for patients and their partners about EPT for all relevant STIs, helping ensure those receiving medication are informed about its use and the importance of follow-up care.
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Allow Fast Partner STI Treatment
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Sponsors
15 Co-sponsors
3 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to health
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading cal.29
- Returned to assembly
- Died in senate
- Referred to health
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.11
- Reported
- Reported referred to codes
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- Referred to health
Companion bill
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Allow Partner STI Treatment
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Kemp Hannon
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STATE OF NEW YORK
313
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 5, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing expedited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 2312 of the public health law, as added by chapter 577 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
§ 2312. Expedited partner therapy for chlamydia trachomatis infection and other sexually transmitted infections. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law and consistent with section two thousand three hundred five of this title, a health care practitioner (who is authorized under title eight of the education law to diagnose and prescribe drugs for sexually transmitted chlamydia trachomatis infection and other sexually transmitted infections, acting within his or her lawful scope of practice) who diagnoses a sexually transmitted chlamydia trachomatis infection or other sexually transmitted infection in an individual patient may prescribe, dispense, furnish, or otherwise provide prescription antibiotic drugs for the sexually transmitted infections for which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the use of expedited partner therapy to that patient's sexual partner or partners without examination of that patient's partner or partners.
2. A health care practitioner who reasonably and in good faith renders expedited partner therapy in accordance with this section and following the rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or be deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct.
3. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations concerning the implementation of this section and shall also develop forms for patients and their partners explaining expedited partner therapy for a chlamydia trachomatis infection and other sexually transmitted
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infections for which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the use of expedited partner therapy. Such forms shall be written in a clear and coherent manner using words with common, everyday meanings.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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