Assembly Bill A11124

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring residential health care facilities to notify certain persons of a contagious or infectious disease in the facility and where a list of violations the facility has received can be found

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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-A11124 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2803-z, amd §2803, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A2002

2019-A11124 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires residential health care facilities to notify residents and their designated contacts within twelve hours of the presence of a contagious or infectious disease in the facility; requires such facilities to inform certain persons of where they can locate a list of any violations the facility has received.

2019-A11124 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11124
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gottfried)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring residen-
   tial health care facilities to notify certain persons of a  contagious
   or  infectious  disease in the facility and where a list of violations
   the facility has received can be found

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2803-z to read as follows:
   § 2803-Z. NOTIFICATION OF THE PRESENCE OF A CONTAGIOUS  OR  INFECTIOUS
 DISEASE. THE OPERATOR OF A RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY SHALL NOTIFY
 ALL  RESIDENTS  AND THEIR DESIGNATED CONTACTS WITHIN TWELVE HOURS OF THE
 PRESENCE OF A CONTAGIOUS OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN THE FACILITY.
   § 2. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding a  new
 subdivision 13 to read as follows:
   13. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REQUIRE EACH RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACIL-
 ITY  PROVIDE  RESIDENTS  AND THEIR FAMILIES WITH A SEPARATE DOCUMENT, AS
 PART OF AN INTAKE APPLICATION, ADVISING, IN NO  LESS  THAN  TWELVE-POINT
 FONT,  WHERE ONLINE THE POTENTIAL RESIDENT AND THEIR FAMILY CAN LOCATE A
 LIST OF ANY VIOLATIONS THE FACILITY HAS RECEIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD17350-01-0

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