Assembly Bill A10547

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires the provision of video communication devices to certain patients during any time when visitor access is limited

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2019-A10547 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-c, Pub Health L; amd §23-b, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A5283
2023-2024: A2117
2025-2026: A1023

2019-A10547 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires video communication devices for patients or residents in nursing homes, hospitals or facilities providing health related services when visitor access is limited; further requires that as part of a disaster preparedness plan that nursing homes, adult homes, enriched housing programs, and assisted living facilities provide video communication devices to patients for use when visitor access is limited, including, but not limited to during a designated state of emergency or a state disaster emergency.

2019-A10547 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10547
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 28, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Davila) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  video  communi-
   cation  devices  for patients or residents in nursing homes, hospitals
   or facilities providing health related  services;  and  to  amend  the
   executive  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  as  part  of  a disaster
   preparedness plan that nursing homes, adult  homes,  enriched  housing
   programs,  and  assisted living facilities provide video communication
   devices to patients
 
   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 r to read as follows:
   R.  PURSUANT  TO  REGULATIONS  PROMULGATED  BY THE COMMISSIONER, EVERY
 PATIENT OF A NURSING HOME, HOSPITAL OR FACILITY PROVIDING HEALTH RELATED
 SERVICES, SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO VIDEO COMMUNICATION  DEVICES  FOR  USE
 WHEN VISITOR ACCESS IS LIMITED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DURING FLU
 SEASON  OR  DURING  A  DESIGNATED STATE OF EMERGENCY OR A STATE DISASTER
 EMERGENCY.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 23-b of the executive law is amended  by
 adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
   (E)  PROVIDING VIDEO COMMUNICATION DEVICES FOR USE WHEN VISITOR ACCESS
 IS LIMITED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DURING A DESIGNATED  STATE  OF
 EMERGENCY OR A STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.    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  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.
                                                            LBD16518-01-0

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