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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5506

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 9, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 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.
                                                                   LBD00560-01-1