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Senate Bill S7892

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated external defibrillators

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2021-S7892 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §225, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: S2239
2025-2026: S3507

2021-S7892 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated external defibrillators in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner to be adequate to ensure ready and appropriate access for use during emergencies.

2021-S7892 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7892 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7892
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 18, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  nursing
   homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated
   external defibrillators
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 225 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 5-d to read as follows:
   5-D. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH  (R)  OF  SUBDIVISION
 FIVE  OF THIS SECTION, THE SANITARY CODE SHALL PROVIDE THAT EACH NURSING
 HOME AND ASSISTED LIVING  FACILITY  LICENSED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL
 PROVIDE  AND  MAINTAIN  ON-SITE  AUTOMATED  EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR (AED)
 EQUIPMENT, AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  SECTION
 THREE  THOUSAND-B OF THIS CHAPTER, IN QUANTITIES AND TYPES DEEMED BY THE
 COMMISSIONER TO BE ADEQUATE TO ENSURE READY AND APPROPRIATE  ACCESS  FOR
 USE DURING EMERGENCIES. SUCH NURSING HOME AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES
 AND  STAFF  SHALL  BE  SUBJECT  TO  THE  REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS OF
 SECTION THREE THOUSAND-B OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14189-01-1

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