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Senate Bill S2247

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires hospitals and healthcare facilities providing emergency services to develop plans to provide reasonable accommodations for service animals

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2023-S2247 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Civil Rights Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §47-b, Civ Rts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S7276
2025-2026: S3510

2023-S2247 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hospitals and healthcare facilities which provide emergency services to develop plans to provide reasonable accommodations to house a patient's service animal until such time as they can be picked up.

2023-S2247 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2247 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2247
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to  requiring  certain
   healthcare  facilities to develop plans to provide reasonable accommo-
   dations for service animals

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 47-b of the civil rights law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8.  EACH  HOSPITAL  OR  HEALTHCARE  FACILITY  THAT  PROVIDES EMERGENCY
 SERVICES SHALL DEVELOP A PLAN TO PROVIDE A REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION  FOR
 SERVICE  ANIMALS  BROUGHT  INTO SUCH FACILITY DURING AN EMERGENCY OR ANY
 TIME THAT A PATIENT NEEDS MEDICAL  TREATMENT  AND  SUCH  SERVICE  ANIMAL
 CANNOT  BE  WITH  SUCH  PATIENT.    SUCH  REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, A SPACE OR AREA TO  HOUSE  SUCH  SERVICE
 ANIMAL UNTIL SUCH TIME AS A FAMILY MEMBER, DESIGNATED PERSON, OR SERVICE
 ANIMAL AGENCY CAN COLLECT SUCH SERVICE ANIMAL OR SUCH SERVICE ANIMAL CAN
 BE REUNITED WITH THE PATIENT AT THE HOSPITAL OR HEALTHCARE FACILITY. FOR
 PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION, "SERVICE ANIMAL" SHALL MEAN  ANY ANIMAL
 THAT HAS BEEN PARTNERED WITH A PERSON WHO HAS A DISABILITY AND HAS  BEEN
 TRAINED  OR  IS  BEING TRAINED, BY A QUALIFIED PERSON, TO AID OR GUIDE A
 PERSON WITH A DISABILITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04981-01-3

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