Assembly Bill A10703

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing a nursing home patient to install an electronic monitoring device in his or her room

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A10703 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7138
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A2355, S3786
2021-2022: A3708, S3821
2023-2024: A4616, S1440

2017-A10703 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to allowing a nursing home patient to install, operate and maintain, at his or her own expense, an electronic monitoring device in his or her room.

2017-A10703 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10703
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  a
   nursing  home  patient  to install, operate and maintain an electronic
   monitoring device in his or her room
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2803-c of the public health law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph q to read as follows:
   Q.  PURSUANT  TO  REGULATIONS  PROMULGATED  BY THE COMMISSIONER, EVERY
 PATIENT SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT, AT HIS OR HER  OWN  EXPENSE,  TO  INSTALL,
 OPERATE AND MAINTAIN AN ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE IN HIS OR HER ROOM.
 FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE  TERM "ELECTRONIC MONITORING
 DEVICE" SHALL MEAN A SURVEILLANCE INSTRUMENT WITH A FIXED POSITION VIDEO
 CAMERA OR AN AUDIO RECORDING DEVICE, OR A COMBINATION THEREOF, WHICH  IS
 INSTALLED  IN  A  PATIENT'S  ROOM  AND BROADCASTS OR RECORDS ACTIVITY OR
 SOUNDS OCCURRING IN SUCH ROOM.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
 for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
 and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13860-01-7

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