Assembly Bill A10564

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Rules and regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities to test all residents of such nursing homes and residential healthcare facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

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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-A10564 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8869
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A2218, S1177
2023-2024: A1058

2019-A10564 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the Commissioner of Health to promulgate rules and regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities to test all residents of such nursing homes and residential healthcare facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

2019-A10564 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   10564
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 3, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jacobson) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  requiring  the  commissioner  of health to promulgate rules and
   regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facil-
   ities to test all residents of  such  nursing  homes  and  residential
   health care facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. (a) Within 14 days after the effective date  of  this  act,
 the  commissioner  of  health  shall  promulgate  rules  and regulations
 requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities  to  test
 all  residents of such nursing homes and residential health care facili-
 ties for the novel coronavirus  (COVID-19)  during  the  state  disaster
 emergency  declared  pursuant  to Executive Order Number 202 of 2020, as
 amended, every 30 days, and additionally, within one week after a member
 of the staff of the facility or nursing home or another  resident  tests
 positive  for  COVID-19, and for sixty days after the expiration of such
 Executive Order, as amended.
   (b) Sixty days after the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to
 Executive Order Number 202 of 2020, as amended, has ended, all residents
 of nursing homes and residential health care facilities shall be  tested
 for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) within 7 days after a member of the
 staff  or  another  resident  of such nursing home or residential health
 care facility tests positive for the novel  coronavirus  (COVID-19)  and
 shall subsequently be tested 30 days thereafter.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16550-04-0

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