Bill Text: NY A08277 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8277

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to requiring telephones capable of making local and long-distance telephone calls be in every nursing home patient's room, either at such patient's bedside or in the patient's room depending on the patient's mobility.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 13-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - held for consideration in health [A08277 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08277-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8277

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BENDETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  requiring  tele-
          phones capable of making local and long-distance telephone calls be in
          every nursing home patient's room

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2803-c of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph s to read as follows:
     3    s. Subject to  regulations  promulgated  by  the  commissioner,  every
     4  patient  shall have the right to a telephone capable of making local and
     5  long-distance telephone calls at  such  patient's  bedside  or  in  such
     6  patient's room depending upon the mobility of the patient.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     8  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     9  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    10  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    11  completed on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08776-01-3