Bill Text: NY S04256 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health to conduct a study on opening three new veterans nursing homes in New York state; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04256 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04256-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4256

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  ASHBY,  OBERACKER,  RHOADS, ROLISON, WEIK -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Health

        AN  ACT to direct the department of health to conduct a study on opening
          three new veterans nursing homes in New York state; and providing  for
          the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. 1. (a) The department of health shall conduct  a  study  in
     2  relation to opening three new veterans nursing homes in New York state.
     3    (b) Such study shall include, but not be limited to:
     4    i.  the  best  locations  in New York state to site three new veterans
     5  nursing homes;
     6    ii. the staffing requirements for such veterans nursing homes based on
     7  projected demand for beds in such nursing homes; and
     8    iii. the costs associated with  opening  three  new  veterans  nursing
     9  homes.
    10    2.  On  or  before  one  year from the effective date of this act, the
    11  department of health shall submit such study to the governor, the tempo-
    12  rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly,  all  members
    13  of  the  senate  committee  on  veterans, homeland security and military
    14  affairs, and the assembly committee on veterans services.
    15    3. The department of health may request, and is authorized to receive,
    16  any information from any state agency that is relevant and  material  to
    17  the  completion  of such study. Such information received by the depart-
    18  ment of health  shall be subject to the same requirements for  confiden-
    19  tiality  and limitations on use, if any, as are applicable to such state
    20  agency's use of such information.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    22  deemed repealed one year after such effective date.

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