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Assembly Bill A9521

Signed By Governor

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to rights of residents of adult care facilities

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2019-A9521 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7190
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §461-d, Soc Serv L (as proposed in S.874 & A.1084)

2019-A9521 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to rights of residents of adult care facilities; provides that residents have a right to be informed about their condition, treatment and medications.

2019-A9521 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9521
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  adult  care
   facilities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 3  of  section  461-d  of  the
 social  services law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending
 the social services law relating to adult care facilities,  as  proposed
 in  legislative  bills numbers S. 874 and A. 1084, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (m) Every resident or, in the case of a person who lacks  capacity  to
 consent  to  his  or  her  health  care,  a person legally authorized to
 consent on behalf of the resident, shall have the right  to  choose  the
 resident's  own health care providers for services not covered by his or
 her admission agreement[, subject to limitations that  may  apply  as  a
 result of a resident's third party payor coverage].
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending the social services law
 relating to adult care facilities,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
 numbers S. 874 and A. 1084, takes effect.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03365-02-0

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