Bill Text: NY A01058 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities to test all residents of such nursing homes and residential healthcare facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A01058 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01058-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1058

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. JACOBSON, DINOWITZ, TAYLOR, SEAWRIGHT, BRONSON,
          HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT requiring the commissioner of  health  to  promulgate  rules  and
          regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facil-
          ities  to  test  all  residents  of such nursing homes and residential
          health care facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

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

     1    Section  1.   Within 14 days after the effective date of this act, the
     2  commissioner of health shall promulgate rules and regulations  requiring
     3  nursing  homes  and residential health care facilities to test all resi-
     4  dents of such nursing homes and residential health care  facilities  for
     5  the  novel  coronavirus  (COVID-19)  within 7 days after a member of the
     6  staff or another resident of such nursing  home  or  residential  health
     7  care  facility  tests  positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and
     8  shall subsequently be tested 30 days thereafter.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03740-02-3