Bill Text: NY S06219 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to municipal limited health care service facilities; diagnostic or treatment centers or other facilities managed and administered by a local health department for the purpose of providing limited health care services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-01 - SUBSTITUTED BY A2400 [S06219 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S06219-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6219 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. 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 municipal limited health care service facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2801-a of the public health law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 17 to read as follows: 3 17. (a) Diagnostic or treatment centers or other facilities managed 4 and administered by a local health department for the purpose of provid- 5 ing limited health care services as defined by the commissioner may be 6 operated by a local health department. Such facilities shall be 7 referred to in this subdivision as "municipal limited health care 8 service facilities". 9 (b) The commissioner shall promulgate regulations for municipal limit- 10 ed health care service facilities, which may be different from the regu- 11 lations otherwise applicable to hospitals, including, but not limited 12 to: designating or limiting the diagnoses and services that may be 13 provided; employee health requirements; and requirements or guidelines 14 for advertising and signage, disclosure of ownership interests, informed 15 consent, record keeping, referral for treatment, case reporting to the 16 patient's primary care or other health care providers, design, 17 construction, fixtures, and equipment. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05214-01-3