Bill Text: NY S03185 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides information on where a list of violations and other actions taken against the facility can be found and requires such facilities to inform certain persons on where they can locate the list.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-08-02 - SIGNED CHAP.344 [S03185 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S03185-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3185 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 28, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, MAY, RIVERA -- 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 providing informa- tion on where a list of violations and other actions taken against the facility can be found The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 13 to read as follows: 3 13. The commissioner shall require each residential health care facil- 4 ity to provide residents and their families with a separate document, as 5 part of an intake application, in no less than twelve-point font, that 6 includes information on how a potential resident and their family 7 members can look up complaints, citations, inspections, enforcement 8 actions, and penalties taken against the facility including the web 9 address for the New York state nursing home profiles website that is 10 maintained by the department and the nursing home compare website main- 11 tained by the United States department of health and human services, if 12 applicable. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth 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. LBD06375-01-1
