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Assembly Bill A7116

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Enacts the "act to reveal the truth about COVID-19 in nursing homes"

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2021-A7116 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §55-a, Exec L

2021-A7116 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "act to reveal the truth about COVID-19 in nursing homes"; authorizes and directs the state inspector general to contract a firm or academic entity to conduct a statistical analysis on the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes.

2021-A7116 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7116
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 22, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BYRNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting  the  act  to
   reveal the truth about COVID-19 in nursing homes
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "act to reveal the truth about COVID-19 in nursing homes".
   § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 55-a to read
 as follows:
   §  55-A.  1. THE STATE INSPECTOR GENERAL IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO
 CONTRACT WITH A FIRM OR ACADEMIC ENTITY TO CONDUCT A STATISTICAL  ANALY-
 SIS  ON  THE  SPREAD OF COVID-19 IN NURSING HOMES. SUCH FIRM OR ACADEMIC
 ENTITY SHALL BE INDEPENDENT FROM THE  STATE  GOVERNMENT  OR  ANY  AGENCY
 THEREOF.
   2. SUCH STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SHALL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
   (A) THE NUMBERS AND RATES OF MORTALITY FOR ALL NURSING HOME RESIDENTS;
   (B)  THE  EFFECT THAT STATE POLICIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH'S POLICY TO DENY  READMISSION  OR  ADMISSION  TO  A
 NURSING  HOME  SOLELY  BASED  ON  A  CONFIRMED OR SUSPECTED DIAGNOSIS OF
 COVID-19; AND
   (C) ANY CONCLUSIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS ON WHETHER STATE AND/OR FEDERAL
 POLICIES WERE HELPFUL OR HARMFUL IN PROTECTING ELDERLY RESIDENTS OF  THE
 STATE FROM COVID-19.
   3.  THE  ANALYSIS  SHALL BREAK DOWN ITS FINDINGS BY COUNTY, AND, WHERE
 LARGE NUMBERS  OF  CASES  HAVE  ARISEN,  BY  FACILITY.  PRIOR  TO  BEING
 PUBLISHED,  SUCH ANALYSIS SHALL BE PEER-REVIEWED BY AT LEAST THREE SEPA-
 RATE INDEPENDENT FIRMS OR ACADEMIC ENTITIES. SUCH  SEPARATE  INDEPENDENT
 FIRMS  OR  ACADEMIC ENTITIES SHALL BE INDEPENDENT FROM THE STATE GOVERN-
 MENT OR ANY AGENCY THEREOF.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10388-01-1

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