Bill Text: NY S04068 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires residential health care facilities to provide notices to patients when a temporary operator has been appointed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-29 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S04068 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04068-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4068
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 7, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  STEWART-COUSINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
       AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  resi-
         dential  health  care facilities and adult homes to advise current and
         prospective residents of the financial condition of the facility
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.    Section  460-d of the social services law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
    3    17. THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SHALL  PROVIDE  WRITTEN  NOTIFICATION  TO
    4  RESIDENTS  OF ALL ADULT HOMES, ENRICHED HOUSING PROGRAMS, RESIDENCES FOR
    5  ADULTS AND ASSISTED LIVING PROGRAMS WHERE A TEMPORARY OPERATOR HAS  BEEN
    6  APPOINTED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00169-01-3