Bill Text: NY S09027 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires residential health care facilities to update residents, authorized family members, and guardians of residents of the presence of an infection and to have in their pandemic emergency plan a plan or procedure for designating a separate cohort area.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-10-19 - PRINT NUMBER 9027A [S09027 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S09027-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9027--A IN SENATE October 5, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, RIVERA, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring infection updates and infection control planning in residential health care facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 12 of 2 section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding a new clause 3 (C) to read as follows: 4 (C) to update all residents, authorized family members, and guardians 5 of residents at the facility within twelve hours of the detection of the 6 presence of an infection by a resident or staff member by electronic 7 means or such other means as may be selected by each resident, author- 8 ized family member, or guardian. 9 § 2. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 12 of section 10 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding a new clause (C) to 11 read as follows: 12 (C) a plan or procedure designating a separate cohort area during an 13 infectious disease outbreak in the residential health care facility for 14 the separation of residents that are suspected of being infectious, 15 including the creation of a designated infectious disease care unit. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 17 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD17349-02-0