Bill Text: NY A04594 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Permits up to one hundred percent of beds in hospice residences to be dually certified as both hospice and in-patient beds.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-07-01 - signed chap.193 [A04594 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A04594-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4594--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, THIELE, BRABENEC, JACOBSON -- 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 hospice residence in-patient beds The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2-b of section 4002 of the public health law, 2 as amended by chapter 205 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2-b. "Hospice residence" means a hospice operated home which is resi- 5 dential in character and physical structure and operated for the purpose 6 of providing more than two hospice patients but not more than sixteen 7 hospice patients with hospice care, which may include dually certified 8 hospice in-patient beds up to [twenty-five percent of the hospice resi-9dence's patient capacity, or up to fifty] one hundred percent of the 10 hospice residence's patient capacity [with the commissioner's approval]. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00560-02-1
