Bill Text: NY A05446 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of health to post on its website certain data relating to COVID-19 cases in hospitals and nursing homes, including total COVID-19 cases and deaths in nursing homes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - held for consideration in health [A05446 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05446-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5446

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. LAWLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to requiring the
          department of health to post on its website certain data  relating  to
          COVID-19 cases in hospitals and nursing homes

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

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  206-c to read as follows:
     3    §  206-c.  Special  requirements with respect to COVID-19 data. 1. For
     4  the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the follow-
     5  ing meanings:
     6    (a) "Hospital" has the same meaning as defined by section twenty-eight
     7  hundred one of this chapter, and shall include any temporary health care
     8  facility in New York state established by the state or  federal  govern-
     9  ment  in response to the COVID-19 pandemic or any other pandemic-related
    10  response.
    11    (b) "Nursing home" has the same meaning as defined by section  twenty-
    12  eight hundred one of this chapter.
    13    2. The commissioner shall compile and post on the department's website
    14  in  a  conspicuous  location  and  in  a format capable of download in a
    15  spreadsheet format, the following data on a weekly basis:
    16    (a) The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths result-
    17  ing from COVID-19 in nursing homes in New York state;
    18    (b) The total number of individuals with a confirmed case of  COVID-19
    19  transferred from a nursing home to a hospital in New York state;
    20    (c)  The  total  number of confirmed deaths of individuals transferred
    21  from a nursing home to a hospital resulting from  a  confirmed  case  of
    22  COVID-19; and
    23    (d)  The total number of individuals with a confirmed case of COVID-19
    24  discharged from a hospital to a nursing home.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08043-01-1
        A. 5446                             2

     1    3. The data posted pursuant to subdivision two of this  section  shall
     2  be  organized  by  county,  date,  nursing home, and hospital, and shall
     3  include data retroactive to March first, two thousand twenty.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.