Bill Text: NY S05506 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Permits up to one hundred percent of beds in hospice residences to be dually certified as both hospice and in-patient beds.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-10 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4594A [S05506 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05506-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5506--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 9, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. HINCHEY, BORRELLO, MARTUCCI, SKOUFIS -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to hospice residence
          in-patient beds

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 2-b of section 4002 of the public health law,
     2  as amended by chapter 205 of the laws of 2017, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2-b.  "Hospice residence" means a hospice operated home which is resi-
     5  dential in character and physical structure and operated for the purpose
     6  of providing more than two hospice patients but not  more  than  sixteen
     7  hospice  patients  with hospice care, which may include dually certified
     8  hospice in-patient beds up to [twenty-five percent of the hospice  resi-
     9  dence's  patient  capacity,  or  up to fifty] one hundred percent of the
    10  hospice residence's patient capacity [with the commissioner's approval].
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00560-03-1