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Jan 05, 2022 | referred to health |
May 20, 2021 | reported referred to rules |
Mar 19, 2021 | referred to health |
assembly Bill A6610
Sponsored By
BICHOTTE HERMELYN
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor Calendar
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed/Vetoed by Governor
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Charles Barron
A6610 (ACTIVE) - Details
A6610 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6610 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 19, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reporting COVID- 19, communicable diseases and deaths caused by such communicable diseases THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding two new paragraphs (e-1) and (e-2) to read as follows: (E-1) ENSURE THAT THE DEPARTMENT UPDATES ITS REGULAR REPORTING OF "NURSING HOME AND ADULT CARE FACILITY COVID RELATED DEATHS STATEWIDE" TO INCLUDE THOSE COVID-19 CONFIRMED AND PRESUMED POSITIVE CASES OF RESI- DENTS WHO WERE TRANSFERRED FROM A NURSING HOME OR ADULT CARE FACILITY TO A HOSPITAL AND DIED IN THE HOSPITAL RETROSPECTIVE TO MARCH FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY. SUCH UPDATE SHALL OCCUR AND BE PUBLICLY POSTED WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION; (E-2) SHARE AGGREGATE REPORTS OF INFORMATION COLLECTED UNDER THE DEPARTMENT'S EMERGENCY SURVEY SYSTEM KNOWN AS THE HEALTH EMERGENCY RESPONSE DATA SYSTEM (HERDS), OR ITS SUCCESSOR, WITH THE ENTITIES COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING THE HERDS SURVEYS, IN ORDER TO SUPPORT SUCH ENTITIES' SITUATIONAL AWARENESS AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE NEEDS AS DICTATED BY THE NATURE OF THE EMERGENCY; SUCH REPORTS SHALL BE SHARED WITH SURVEYED ENTITIES AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE AFTER THE HERDS COLLECTION, AND SHALL BE IN A FORM AND INTERVAL APPROPRIATE TO THE COLLECTION FREQUENCY AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE EMERGENCY; FOR SURVEYS OF DURATION LESS THAN ONE WEEK, REPORTS SHALL BE SHARED AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE, BUT NOT LATER THAN ONE WEEK AFTER FINAL COLLECTION; FOR SURVEYS OF DURATION MORE THAN ONE WEEK, SUCH REPORTS SHALL BE SHARED NO LESS FREQUENTLY THAN WEEKLY DURING THE SURVEY PERIOD. INFORMATION FROM SUCH REPORTS MAY BE MADE PUBLIC BY THE DEPARTMENT AND SHALL BE USED TO ENSURE THE DEPARTMENT'S EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07694-03-1