Requires residential health care facilities to notify residents and their designated contacts within twelve hours of the presence of a contagious or infectious disease in the facility; requires such facilities to inform certain persons of where they can locate a list of any violations the facility has received.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
November 6, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gottfried)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring residen-
tial health care facilities to notify certain persons of a contagious
or infectious disease in the facility and where a list of violations
the facility has received can be found
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2803-z to read as follows:
§ 2803-Z. NOTIFICATION OF THE PRESENCE OF A CONTAGIOUS OR INFECTIOUS
DISEASE. THE OPERATOR OF A RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY SHALL NOTIFY
ALL RESIDENTS AND THEIR DESIGNATED CONTACTS WITHIN TWELVE HOURS OF THE
PRESENCE OF A CONTAGIOUS OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN THE FACILITY.
§ 2. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 13 to read as follows:
13. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REQUIRE EACH RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACIL-
ITY PROVIDE RESIDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES WITH A SEPARATE DOCUMENT, AS
PART OF AN INTAKE APPLICATION, ADVISING, IN NO LESS THAN TWELVE-POINT
FONT, WHERE ONLINE THE POTENTIAL RESIDENT AND THEIR FAMILY CAN LOCATE A
LIST OF ANY VIOLATIONS THE FACILITY HAS RECEIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD17350-01-0
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