Bill Text: NY A10186 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring the department of health to prepare a biennial report on the number of available ventilators at each hospital located within the state and to make recommendations on the number of ventilators to meet the needs of a pandemic or regional disease outbreak.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-24 - referred to health [A10186 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10186-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10186

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 24, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. ARROYO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT  requiring the department of health to prepare a biennial report
          on the number of available ventilators at each hospital located within
          the state

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

     1    Section  1.  a. The department of health shall prepare a report on the
     2  number of available ventilators at  each  hospital  located  within  the
     3  state.  Such report shall list every hospital and the number of ventila-
     4  tors available within each hospital. Such list  of  hospitals  shall  be
     5  divided  into  regional  groups.  For the purpose of this act, "regional
     6  groups" shall mean the ten economic development regions  established  by
     7  the  New  York  state  department  of  economic  development pursuant to
     8  section 230 of the economic development law.
     9    b. Such report shall include an analysis on whether the current number
    10  of ventilators available within each hospital and within each region are
    11  adequate to address a pandemic, epidemic or disease outbreak in which  a
    12  main symptom is a life-threatening difficulty in breathing that can only
    13  be treated with a ventilator.
    14    c. Such report shall include the following:
    15    (i) the age and life-span of all ventilators;
    16    (ii)  recommendations  on any state expenditures needed to support the
    17  purchase of new ventilators in order to replace  any  out-of-date,  non-
    18  functioning or poorly functioning ventilators;
    19    (iii)  recommendations on any funding needed to increase the number of
    20  ventilators within the state to meet the needs of a  pandemic,  epidemic
    21  or disease outbreak;
    22    (iv) recommendations on the number of trained hospital staff necessary
    23  if the number of ventilators is increased in each hospital; and
    24    (v)  recommendations for training hospital staff to adequately operate
    25  such ventilators.
    26    § 2. The department of health shall deliver such report to the  gover-
    27  nor,  the  speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the assembly,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 10186                            2

     1  the temporary president of the senate and the  minority  leader  of  the
     2  senate no later than March 1, 2021 and biennially thereafter.
     3    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.