Bill Text: NY A08370 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows personal caregivers to visit residents of adult care facilities at any time, in compliance with federal and state laws and regulations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A08370 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08370-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8370

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 20, 2021
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the social  services  law,  in
          relation  to  allowing personal caregivers to visit residents of adult
          care facilities

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 2801-h of the public health law,
     2  as amended by chapter 108 of the laws of 2021, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2.  [During  a  public health emergency declared under section twenty-
     5  four or section twenty-eight of the  executive  law  personal]  Personal
     6  caregiving  visitors may visit residents of nursing homes, in compliance
     7  with federal law and regulations and state regulations made  under  this
     8  section.  Nursing  homes shall admit any personal caregiving visitor who
     9  is in compliance with applicable requirements under this section.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 461-u of the  social  services  law,  as
    11  amended  by  chapter  108  of  the  laws  of 2021, is amended to read as
    12  follows:
    13    2. [During a public health emergency declared  under  section  twenty-
    14  four  or  section  twenty-eight  of the executive law personal] Personal
    15  caregiving visitors may visit residents of  adult  care  facilities,  in
    16  compliance  with  federal law and regulations and state regulations made
    17  under this section. Adult care facilities shall admit any personal care-
    18  giving visitor who is in compliance with applicable  requirements  under
    19  this section.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13080-01-1