Assembly Bill A10426

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring that nursing home patients who previously tested positive for COVID-19 shall produce a negative test result before he or she can be readmitted to such nursing home

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  • Introduced
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    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2019-A10426 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A750

2019-A10426 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that nursing home patients who have previously tested positive for COVID-19 shall produce a negative test result before he or she can be readmitted to such nursing home

2019-A10426 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10426
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 11, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. D. Rosen-
   thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT in relation to requiring that  nursing  home  patients  who  have
   previously  tested positive for COVID-19 shall produce a negative test
   result before he or she can be readmitted to such nursing home

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Notwithstanding  any  law to the contrary, a nursing home
 resident who has been admitted to a hospital  as  a  result  of  testing
 positive  for  COVID-19  shall  not  be  readmitted to such nursing home
 unless such resident submits to retesting for  COVID-19  by  a  licensed
 medical  professional  and can produce a negative test result, irrespec-
 tive of whether such resident's COVID-19 symptoms have subsided.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16341-01-0

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