Assembly Actions -
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Apr 29, 2022 |
referred to health |
Assembly Bill A9996
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CAHILL
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2021-A9996 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §2808-e, Pub Health L
2021-A9996 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Expands the residential health care for children with medical fragility in transition to young adults and young adults with medical fragility demonstration program to include certain eligible residential facilities in addition to pediatric residential health care facilities authorized to participate in such program.
2021-A9996 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9996 I N A S S E M B L Y April 29, 2022 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding the young adults with medical fragility demonstration program THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 4 and 5 of section 2808-e of the public health law, as added by section 1 of part MM of chapter 57 of the laws of 2021, are amended to read as follows: 1. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the commissioner shall, within amounts appropriated and subject to the availability of federal financial participation, establish a demon- stration program for two eligible pediatric residential health care facilities, as defined in paragraph (d) of subdivision two of this section, AND ANY ELIGIBLE RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY, AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (E) OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION, to construct a new facility or repurpose part of an existing facility to operate as a young adult residential health care facility for the purpose of improving the quality of care for young adults with medical fragility. 4. Upon SELECTION OF AN ELIGIBLE RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY FOR THE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM, OR UPON receipt of a certificate of need application from an eligible pediatric residential health care facility selected by the commissioner for the demonstration program authorized under this section, the commissioner is authorized to approve, with the written approval of the public health and health planning council pursu- ant to section twenty-eight hundred two of this article, the construction of a new residential health care facility to be constructed and operated on a parcel of land within the same county as that of THE eligible pediatric residential health care facility OR ELIGIBLE RESIDEN- TIAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY that is proposing such new facility and over which it will have site control, or the repurposing of a portion of a residential health care facility that is currently serving geriatric residents or those with similar needs for the provision of nursing, medical, psychological and counseling support services appropriate to EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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