New York Assembly Bill A08556 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8556  IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law and the civil practice law and rules, in relation to sharing of certain information The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 837-x of the executive law, as 2 amended and such section as renumbered by a chapter of the laws of 2023 3 amending the criminal procedure law, the executive law, the civil prac- 4 tice law and rules, the insurance law and the education law relating to 5 legally protected health activity providers, as proposed in legislative 6 bills numbers S.1066-B and A.1709-B, is amended to read as follows: 7 2. (a) No state or local government employee or entity or other person 8 acting on behalf of state or local government shall cooperate with or 9 provide information to any out-of-state individual or out-of-state agen- 10 cy or department regarding any legally protected health activity in this 11 state, or otherwise expend or use time, moneys, facilities, property, 12 equipment, personnel or other resources in furtherance of any investi- 13 gation or proceeding that seeks to impose civil or criminal liability or 14 professional sanctions upon a person or entity for any legally protected 15 health activity occurring in this state; except that the commissioner of 16 health may share deidentified information as strictly necessary to 17 respond to a public health emergency or an imminent threat to public 18 health, or to consult and cooperate with the appropriate agencies of the 19 federal government or of other states in accordance with the functions, 20 powers, and duties of the department as outlined under section two 21 hundred one of the public health law, and may share identified informa- 22 tion in such circumstances only when strictly necessary and with the 23 consent of the patient. For purposes of this section, "deidentified" 24 means that the information cannot identify or be made to identify or be 25 associated with a particular individual, directly or indirectly, and is 26 subject to technical safeguards and policies and procedures that prevent 27 reidentification, whether intentionally or unintentionally, of any indi- 28 vidual. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04071-10-4 
 A. 8556 2 1 (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the investigation of any 2 reproductive health services rendered in violation of the laws of this 3 state, provided that no information relating to any medical procedure 4 performed on a specific individual may be shared with an out-of-state 5 agency or any other individual. Nothing in this section shall prohibit 6 compliance with a valid, court-issued subpoena or warrant which does not 7 relate to a law seeking to impose civil or criminal liability or profes- 8 sional sanctions for a legally protected health activity, or in response 9 to the written request of a person who is the subject of such an inves- 10 tigation or proceeding, to the extent necessary, in each case, to 11 fulfill such request. 12 (c) Nothing in this section shall prohibit disclosure of deidentified 13 information in compliance with federal grant reporting requirements or 14 other reporting requirements under federal law. 15 (d) This section shall not be construed to allow for the provision of 16 any information to any individual or out-of-state agency or department 17 which would not otherwise be available under state law. 18 § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (g) of section 3119 of the civil prac- 19 tice law and rules, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending 20 the criminal procedure law, the executive law, the civil practice law 21 and rules, the insurance law and the education law relating to legally 22 protected health activity providers, as proposed in legislative bills 23 numbers S.1066-B and A.1709-B, is amended to read as follows: 24 (1) Out-of-state proceedings regarding legally protected health activ- 25 ities. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section or any other 26 law, no court or county clerk shall issue a subpoena under this 27 section in connection with an out-of-state proceeding relating to any 28 legally protected health activity which occurred in this state, unless 29 such out-of-state proceeding (i) sounds in tort or contract, (ii) is 30 actionable, in an equivalent or similar manner, under the laws of this 31 state, and (iii) was brought by the patient who received reproductive 32 health services as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of 33 section 570.17 of the criminal procedure law, or the patient's legal 34 representative, so long as the patient gives express consent unless 35 express consent is not feasible due to patient injury or death. 36 § 3. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 37 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the criminal procedure 38 law, the executive law, the civil practice law and rules, the insurance 39 law and the education law relating to legally protected health activity 40 providers, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.1066-B and 41 A.1709-B, takes effect.