Bill Text: NY A05708 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires hospitals and residential health care facilities to have a three-month supply of personal protective equipment in stock on the premises; requires the department of health to conduct an annual audit of the availability of such personal protective equipment in hospitals and residential health care facilities.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced) 2026-01-07 - referred to health [A05708 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A05708-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5708

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 20, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi-
          tals and residential health care  facilities  to  have  a  three-month
          supply  of  personal protective equipment in stock on the premises and
          requiring the department of health to conduct an annual audit  of  the
          availability  of  such  personal protective equipment in hospitals and
          residential health care facilities

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

     1    Section  1. Clause (B) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdi-
     2  vision 12 of section 2803 of the public health law, as added by  chapter
     3  114 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (B)  a  plan  for such residential health care facility to maintain or
     5  contract to have at least a [two-month] three-month supply  of  personal
     6  protective equipment; and
     7    §  2.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2801-i
     8  to read as follows:
     9    § 2801-i. Personal protective equipment. 1. Every hospital  and  resi-
    10  dential health care facility shall have at least a three-month supply of
    11  personal protective equipment in stock on the premises.
    12    2.  The  department shall conduct an annual audit to ensure compliance
    13  with this section and to maintain an  accurate  accounting  of  personal
    14  protective  equipment  inventory  available throughout the state. In the
    15  event of an emergency where a hospital or residential health care facil-
    16  ity does not have an adequate supply of personal  protective  equipment,
    17  the department may direct a hospital or residential health care facility
    18  to provide personal protective equipment to another hospital or residen-
    19  tial  health  care  facility  in  the state; provided, however, that the
    20  department shall reimburse  the  hospital  or  residential  health  care
    21  facility  for  any  personal  protective  equipment  provided to another
    22  hospital or residential health care facility and  shall  replenish  such
    23  items.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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