Bill Text: NY A06180 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6180 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of health to ensure all home health aides and certified nurse aides employed by home care services agencies receive COVID-19 testing not less than every ten days and that such agencies report the COVID-19 infection rates among employees and clients to the commissioner of health.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to ways and means [A06180 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06180-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6180--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 10, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ANDERSON, STECK, DICKENS, GALLAGHER, JACKSON,
          MAMDANI, FORREST, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
          Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT requiring the commissioner of health to ensure  all  home  health
          aides  and  certified nurse aides employed by home care services agen-
          cies receive COVID-19 testing and that such agencies  report  COVID-19
          infection  rates  to the commissioner; and providing for the repeal of
          such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  The  commissioner  of health shall create and implement a
     2  program to ensure that all home health aides and certified  nurse  aides
     3  employed  by  home care services agencies, as defined in section 3602 of
     4  the public health law, throughout the state are  tested  not  less  than
     5  every  ten  days  for  COVID-19.  The department of health shall provide
     6  sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) for the implementation of
     7  such testing and shall provide for the cost of such testing.
     8    § 2. Home care services agencies shall be required to  report  to  the
     9  commissioner  of  health,  no  less  than  every  ten days, the COVID-19
    10  infection rate among employees and the  COVID-19  infection  rate  among
    11  clients served by such employees.
    12    § 3. Necessary funding to implement the program established in section
    13  one  of  this act shall come from existing resources, federal funds, and
    14  appropriations from the general fund.
    15    § 4. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law; provided that the provisions of this act shall expire
    17  and be deemed repealed upon expiration of the declared state of emergen-
    18  cy  relating to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19); and provided, further,
    19  that the commissioner of health shall notify the legislative bill draft-
    20  ing commission upon the occurrence of the expiration of the state disas-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09510-02-1

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     1  ter emergency declared by executive order number  202  and  any  further
     2  amendments  or modifications, and as may be further extended pursuant to
     3  section 28 of the executive law, in order that the commission may  main-
     4  tain  an accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of
     5  the laws of the state of New York in  furtherance  of  effectuating  the
     6  provisions  of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the
     7  public officers law.