AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF LONG-TERM ANTIBIOTICS FOR THE TREATMENT OF LYME DISEASE.


General Assembly	*Proposed Bill No. 6200*
*January Session, 2009*	LCO No. 2546

Referred to Committee on Public Health
Introduced by:
REP. FAWCETT, 133^rd Dist. REP. GODFREY, 110^th Dist. REP. HORNISH, 62^nd Dist. REP. LYDDY, 106^th Dist. REP. REEVES, 143^rd Dist. SEN. MCKINNEY, 28^th Dist. REP. TABORSAK, 109^th Dist.		REP. TONG, 147^th Dist. REP. BYE, 19^th Dist. REP. HURLBURT, 53^rd Dist. REP. HWANG, 134^th Dist. REP. DREW, 132^nd Dist. REP. BARTLETT, 2^nd Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF LONG-TERM ANTIBIOTICS FOR THE TREATMENT OF LYME DISEASE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to provide that: (1) A physician may prescribe, administer or dispense antibiotic therapy for therapeutic purpose to a person diagnosed with and having symptoms of Lyme disease if a diagnosis and treatment plan has been documented in the physician's medical record for that patient; and (2) no physician may be subject to disciplinary action solely for prescribing, administering or dispensing long-term antibiotic therapy for a therapeutic purpose for a patient clinically diagnosed with Lyme disease, if a diagnosis and treatment plan has been documented in the physician's medical record for that patient.

Statement of Purpose:

To allow physicians to prescribe, administer or dispense long-term antibiotics for therapeutic purposes to patients clinically diagnosed with Lyme disease.