Assembly Bill A9290

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires adult care facilities to include certain demographic information in certain records maintained by the facility

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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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2021-A9290 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8813
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §461-e, Soc Serv L

2021-A9290 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires adult care facilities to include demographic information, including race or ethnicity, in certain admission and discharge records maintained by the facility.

2021-A9290 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9290
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 23, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  adult
   care  facilities to include certain demographic information in certain
   records maintained by the facility
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1.  Subdivision 5 of section 461-e of the social services law,
 as  added  by  chapter  601  of  the laws of 1981, is amended to read as
 follows:
   5. The department may promulgate regulations which require each  adult
 care  facility  to  maintain the following written records and any other
 such records, under such  conditions  and  for  such  time,  as  may  be
 prescribed  pursuant  to such regulations: (i) a chronological admission
 and discharge register consisting of a listing of  residents  registered
 in  and  discharged  from such facility by name, age, RACE OR ETHNICITY,
 sex of resident, and place from or to which the resident  is  registered
 or  discharged, (ii) a daily census record, (iii) a personal non-medical
 record for each resident, including but not limited  to,  identification
 of  his  or her next-of-kin, family and sponsor, the name and address of
 the person or persons to be contacted in the event of an emergency,  and
 all details of the referral and registration and non-medical correspond-
 ence  and  papers  concerning  the resident, (iv) a financial record for
 each resident, including but not limited to, copies of  all  agreements,
 resident  account  records  and a current inventory of personal property
 being held by the operator.
   § 2. 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.
                                                            LBD14629-01-2

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