Assembly Bill A699

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Authorizes hospice residences to care for up to 25 patients in N.Y. city

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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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2017-A699 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S111
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§4002 & 4014, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A1311, S5255
2019-2020: S230

2017-A699 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes hospice residences to care for up to 25 patients in cities having a population of one million or more.

2017-A699 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    699
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RODRIGUEZ  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
   hospice residences to care for up to 25 patients
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2-b of section 4002 of the public  health  law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  512 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2-b. "Hospice residence" means a hospice operated home which is  resi-
 dential in character and physical structure and operated for the purpose
 of  providing  more  than two hospice patients but not more than sixteen
 hospice patients OR, IN CITIES HAVING A POPULATION  OF  ONE  MILLION  OR
 MORE,  NOT  MORE  THAN  TWENTY-FIVE HOSPICE PATIENTS, with hospice care,
 which may include dually certified hospice in-patient beds up  to  twen-
 ty-five percent of the hospice residence's patient capacity.
   §  2.  Subdivision  1  of  section  4014  of the public health law, as
 amended by chapter 512 of the laws  of  2013,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  The commissioner is hereby authorized to establish a hospice resi-
 dence pilot program. Such program, subject to the rules and  regulations
 of  the commissioner, shall authorize the operation of not more than ten
 hospice residences operated for the purpose of providing more  than  two
 hospice  patients  but  not  more  than  sixteen hospice patients OR, IN
 CITIES HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, NOT MORE  THAN  TWEN-
 TY-FIVE  HOSPICE  PATIENTS,  with  hospice  care.  The  locations of the
 hospice  residence  pilot  program  shall  be  geographically  disbursed
 throughout  the  state  and  approved by the commissioner. To the extent
 that patients may access hospital or skilled nursing home care, the care
 plan for such patients shall provide for such care.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04454-01-7

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