Bill Text: NY A01010 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health to make publicly available the results of all inspections conducted by the department in nursing homes and other residential health care facilities in the state during the COVID-19 state disaster emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 37-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-01-12 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A01010 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01010-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1010--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 7, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON, LUPARDO, SEAWRIGHT, STERN, CLARK, GOTT-
          FRIED, NOLAN, JACOBSON, MEEKS, SIMON, ENGLEBRIGHT,  GRIFFIN,  LUNSFORD
          --  read  once  and  referred  to the Committee on Health -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
          department  of  health  to  make publicly available the results of all
          inspections conducted by such department in nursing  homes  and  other
          residential  health  care  facilities in the state during the COVID-19
          state disaster emergency and thereafter

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 2803 of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
     3    (a-1) The commissioner shall publish on the department's website with-
     4  in thirty days, in a location accessible to the public, the  results  of
     5  all  inspections  conducted  in  a nursing home. Any patient-identifying
     6  information shall be redacted, and the publication on the website  shall
     7  state the reason for such redaction.
     8    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
     9  the department  of  health  shall  be  responsible  for  publishing  all
    10  inspections conducted on or after March 7, 2020.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04806-06-1