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This bill allows healthcare providers to offer expedited partner therapy for any sexually transmitted infection recommended by the CDC, not just chlamydia.
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Allow Partner STI Treatment
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History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Companion bill
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Allow Fast Partner STI Treatment
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2545
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2017
Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- 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 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing expedited partner therapy for certain sexually transmitted infections
Purpose
To allow for expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted infections that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend for the sexual partner or partners of someone having been diagnosed with the disease.
Summary of provisions
Section one, subdivision one allows a health care provider practitioner who is authorized under New York State law to diagnose or prescribe drugs for sexually transmitted infections, may prescribe or dispense antibiotic drugs to that person's sexual partner or partners without examining the patient's partner or partners.
Subdivision two protects health care practitioners who conduct expedited partner therapy in good faith and in accordance with this legislation from civil or criminal liability.
Subdivision three requires the Commissioner of Health to promulgate regulations and develop forms for patients and their partners explaining expedited partner therapy for sexually transmitted infections that the CDC recommends.
Section two sets the effective date
Justification
In 2005, the New York State passed a law to allow health care providers with prescriptive privileges to provide expedited partner therapy (EPT) for Chlamydia infection when the prescriber's judgment is that the partner(s) will not seek a personal medical visit. This law has helped improve treatment rates for partners and decrease re-infection rates for partners.
The bill will expand the current law to include other sexually transmitted infections that the CDC recommends for expedited partner therapy.
EPT helps physicians and other health care providers decrease rates of sexually transmitted infections. While expedited partner therapy in no way replaces a face to face interaction with a health care provider, it can help patients who otherwise would not reach out for treatment.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found through randomized controlled tests that expedited Partner therapy has the potential for the same success that it has shown with Chlamydia with other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). EPT can be highly effective in decreasing infection rates with other STIs that can be cured by taking antibiotics by mouth, such as gonorrhea.
Legislative history
2015-2016: S.4860-A
Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
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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