Bill Text: NY A05847 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to antimicrobial resistance prevention and education; requires every general hospital and nursing home to establish and implement an antimicrobial stewardship program and establish and implement training regarding antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention and control.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 42-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-12-22 - approval memo.104 [A05847 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05847-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5847

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 26, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  antimicrobial
          resistance prevention and education

          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  2803-z to read as follows:
     3    § 2803-z. Antimicrobial resistance prevention and education. 1.  Every
     4  general hospital and nursing home shall establish and implement an anti-
     5  microbial stewardship program that meets or exceeds federal Medicare and
     6  Medicaid  conditions  of  participation  for  antimicrobial  stewardship
     7  programs in health care facilities.  Additionally,  such  program  shall
     8  incorporate  an  ongoing  process  to measure the impact of the program,
     9  including review, at least annually, of antimicrobial  utilization  data
    10  with development of response plans for high or increasing utilization.
    11    2.  Every general hospital and nursing home shall establish and imple-
    12  ment  training  regarding   antimicrobial   resistance   and   infection
    13  prevention and control, or ensure that such training has taken place, in
    14  addition  to or within existing infection control training programs, for
    15  all individuals licensed or certified pursuant to  title  eight  of  the
    16  education  law  and  who are required to complete coursework or training
    17  regarding infection control pursuant to section two hundred  thirty-nine
    18  of  this  chapter  or section sixty-five hundred five-b of the education
    19  law.
    20    3. The commissioner shall make such rules and regulations  as  may  be
    21  necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this section.
    22    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
    24  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    25  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
    26  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06471-01-1