Bill Text: NY S02239 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated external defibrillators in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner to be adequate to ensure ready and appropriate access for use during emergencies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02239 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02239-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2239

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  nursing
          homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated
          external defibrillators

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

     1    Section 1. Section 225 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 5-d to read as follows:
     3    5-d. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph  (r)  of  subdivision
     4  five  of this section, the sanitary code shall provide that each nursing
     5  home and assisted living  facility  licensed  by  the  department  shall
     6  provide  and  maintain  on-site  automated  external defibrillator (AED)
     7  equipment, as defined in paragraph (a) of  subdivision  one  of  section
     8  three  thousand-b of this chapter, in quantities and types deemed by the
     9  commissioner to be adequate to ensure ready and appropriate  access  for
    10  use during emergencies. Such nursing home and assisted living facilities
    11  and  staff  shall  be  subject  to  the  requirements and limitations of
    12  section three thousand-b of this chapter.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05793-01-3