S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10850
I N A S S E M B L Y
July 24, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Solages) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT requiring New York state to develop and implement a plan for the
distribution of a COVID-19 medical countermeasure in a manner that
prioritizes those communities serving the most vulnerable residents of
the state
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. (a) The New York State Department of Health, shall develop
and release to the public a plan for the equitable distribution of a
COVID-19 medical countermeasure to residents of the state.
(b) Such plan shall be released within sixty days following approval
of such a countermeasure by the United States Food and Drug Adminis-
tration.
(c) The plan shall be formulated and implemented in a manner that
prioritizes the distribution of the medical countermeasure to communi-
ties and facilities serving the New York residents deemed to be most
vulnerable to the immediate medical threat. The state shall identify
statewide and regional areas of greatest potential need during the
current COVID-19 pandemic. Factors to be taken into consideration shall
include, but not be limited to the following:
(i) rates of infection, severity of illness, hospital capacity, recov-
ery and mortality of patients in a community, with sensitivity to popu-
lation characteristics, including but not limited to, age, gender,
racial and/or ethnic background and income status of the members of the
community, to the extent that such factors instrumentally affect the
rates of infection, severity of illness, hospital capacity, recovery
and/or mortality during the current COVID-19 pandemic; and
(ii) the ability or inability of medical providers within a community
to purchase or otherwise obtain the medical countermeasure.
ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16884-03-0
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