Bill Text: NY A02117 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires video communication devices for patients or residents in nursing homes, hospitals or facilities providing health related services when visitor access is limited; requires that as part of a disaster preparedness plan that nursing homes, adult homes, enriched housing programs, and assisted living facilities provide video communication devices to patients for use when visitor access is limited, including, but not limited to during a designated state of emergency or a state disaster emergency.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A02117 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02117-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2117

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. DAVILA, L. ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT, EICHENSTEIN,
          RIVERA, SIMON, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO -- read once and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to video communi-
          cation devices for patients or residents in nursing  homes,  hospitals
          or  facilities  providing  health  related  services; and to amend the
          executive law,  in  relation  to  requiring  as  part  of  a  disaster
          preparedness  plan  that  nursing homes, adult homes, enriched housing
          programs, and assisted living facilities provide  video  communication
          devices to patients

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2803-c of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph s to read as follows:
     3    s. Pursuant to regulations  promulgated  by  the  commissioner,  every
     4  patient of a nursing home, hospital or facility providing health related
     5  services,  shall  have  the right to video communication devices for use
     6  when visitor access is limited, including, but not limited to during flu
     7  season or during a designated state of emergency  or  a  state  disaster
     8  emergency.
     9    §  2. Subdivision 2 of section 23-b of the executive law is amended by
    10  adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
    11    (e) Providing video communication devices for use when visitor  access
    12  is  limited,  including, but not limited to during a designated state of
    13  emergency or a state disaster emergency.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
    16  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    17  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
    18  completed on or before such effective date.

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