Bill Text: NY S08497 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Repeals the emergency or disaster treatment protection act which protects health care facilities and health care professionals from liability that may result from treatment of individuals with COVID-19 under conditions resulting from circumstances associated with the public health emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-06 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08497 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08497-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8497

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 6, 2020
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to repeal article 30-d of the public health law relating  to  the
          emergency or disaster treatment protection act

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

     1    Section 1. Article 30-d of the public health law is REPEALED.
     2    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.









         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16384-01-0