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Assembly Bill A5478

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring the department of health to prepare a report on the number of surplus ventilators within the state at the conclusion of the COVID-19 state of emergency

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2023-A5478 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A6839

2023-A5478 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of health to prepare a report on the number of surplus ventilators within the state at the conclusion of the COVID-19 state of emergency.

2023-A5478 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5478
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. MAHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT in relation to requiring the department of health  to  prepare  a
   report  on  the  number of surplus ventilators within the state at the
   conclusion of the COVID-19 state of emergency

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  department  of  health shall prepare a report on the
 quantity  of  surplus  ventilators  and  personal  protection  equipment
 located  in  storage  or reserve within the state upon the conclusion of
 the state of emergency declared by executive order  202  that  began  on
 March  7,  2020. Such report shall list every warehouse or other storage
 location where such equipment is being stored and identify the  quantity
 of  ventilators  and  personal  protection equipment located within each
 such warehouse or other storage location. Such list  of  warehouses  and
 other  storage  locations shall be divided into regional groups. For the
 purpose of this act, "regional  groups"  shall  mean  the  ten  economic
 development  regions  established  by  the  New York state department of
 economic development pursuant to section 230 of the economic development
 law.
   § 2. The department of health shall deliver such report to the  gover-
 nor,  the  speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the assembly,
 the temporary president of the senate and the  minority  leader  of  the
 senate  no  later than thirty days after the state of emergency declared
 by executive order 202 that began on March 7, 2020 has been lifted.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09294-01-3

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