Assembly Bill A10850

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires New York state to develop and implement a plan for the distribution of a COVID-19 medical countermeasure in a manner that prioritizes those communities serving the most vulnerable residents of the state

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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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2019-A10850 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8717
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A4539, S1162

2019-A10850 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires New York state to develop and implement a plan for the distribution of a COVID-19 medical countermeasure in a manner that prioritizes those communities serving the most vulnerable residents of the state.

2019-A10850 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10850
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 24, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Solages) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT requiring New York state to develop and implement a plan for  the
   distribution  of  a  COVID-19  medical countermeasure in a manner that
   prioritizes those communities serving the most vulnerable residents of
   the state

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. (a) The New York State Department of Health, shall develop
 and release to the public a plan for the  equitable  distribution  of  a
 COVID-19 medical countermeasure to residents of the state.
   (b)  Such  plan shall be released within sixty days following approval
 of such a countermeasure by the United States  Food  and  Drug  Adminis-
 tration.
   (c)  The  plan  shall  be  formulated and implemented in a manner that
 prioritizes the distribution of the medical countermeasure  to  communi-
 ties  and  facilities  serving  the New York residents deemed to be most
 vulnerable to the immediate medical threat.    The state shall  identify
 statewide  and  regional  areas  of  greatest  potential need during the
 current COVID-19 pandemic.  Factors to be taken into consideration shall
 include, but not be limited to the following:
   (i) rates of infection, severity of illness, hospital capacity, recov-
 ery and mortality of patients in a community, with sensitivity to  popu-
 lation  characteristics,  including  but  not  limited  to, age, gender,
 racial and/or ethnic background and income status of the members of  the
 community,  to  the  extent  that such factors instrumentally affect the
 rates of infection, severity of  illness,  hospital  capacity,  recovery
 and/or mortality during the current COVID-19 pandemic; and
   (ii)  the ability or inability of medical providers within a community
 to purchase or otherwise obtain the medical countermeasure.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16884-03-0

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