Bill Text: NY A10264 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring veterans' homes to offer hospice care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-08 - referred to veterans' affairs [A10264 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10264-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10264

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Veterans' Affairs

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring veter-
          ans' homes offer hospice care

          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  2636 to read as follows:
     3    § 2636. State veterans' home hospice care. Every state veterans'  home
     4  operated  pursuant to this article shall offer hospice care to any resi-
     5  dent who qualifies for hospice care.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     7  it shall have become a law.








         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15801-01-0