Requires video communication devices for patients or residents in nursing homes, hospitals or facilities providing health related services when visitor access is limited; requires that as part of a disaster preparedness plan that nursing homes, adult homes, enriched housing programs, and assisted living facilities provide video communication devices to patients for use when visitor access is limited, including, but not limited to during a designated state of emergency or a state disaster emergency.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1023
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DAVILA, ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT, EICHENSTEIN,
RIVERA, SIMON, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, CUNNINGHAM, RAGA -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to video communi-
cation devices for patients or residents in nursing homes, hospitals
or facilities providing health related services; and to amend the
executive law, in relation to requiring as part of a disaster
preparedness plan that nursing homes, adult homes, enriched housing
programs, and assisted living facilities provide video communication
devices to patients
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2803-c of the public health law is
amended by adding a new paragraph s to read as follows:
S. PURSUANT TO REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE COMMISSIONER, EVERY
PATIENT OF A NURSING HOME, HOSPITAL OR FACILITY PROVIDING HEALTH RELATED
SERVICES, SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO VIDEO COMMUNICATION DEVICES FOR USE
WHEN VISITOR ACCESS IS LIMITED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DURING FLU
SEASON OR DURING A DESIGNATED STATE OF EMERGENCY OR A STATE DISASTER
EMERGENCY.
§ 2. Subdivision 2 of section 23-b of the executive law is amended by
adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
(E) PROVIDING VIDEO COMMUNICATION DEVICES FOR USE WHEN VISITOR ACCESS
IS LIMITED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DURING A DESIGNATED STATE OF
EMERGENCY OR A STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00269-01-5
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