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Assembly Bill A10312A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to information that residential health care facilities are required to disclose to residents and their families

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Bill Amendments

2025-A10312 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9555
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803, Pub Health L

2025-A10312 - Summary

Relates to information that residential health care facilities are required to separately disclose to residents and their families; requires such information to be posted on the residential health care facility's website.

2025-A10312 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10312
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to information that
   residential health care facilities are required to  provide  to  resi-
   dents and their families
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 2803 of the public health law, as
 added by chapter 344 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   [13.] 13-A. The commissioner shall  require  each  residential  health
 care  facility  to  provide residents and their families with a separate
 document, as part of an intake application, in no less than twelve-point
 font, that includes information on how a potential  resident  and  their
 family  members can look up complaints, citations, inspections, enforce-
 ment actions, and penalties taken against the  facility,  including  the
 web address for the New York state nursing home profiles website that is
 maintained  by the department and the nursing home compare website main-
 tained by the United States department of health and human services,  if
 applicable.    SUCH INFORMATION SHALL ALSO INCLUDE AN EXPLANATION OF THE
 OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE OF THE FACILITY,  INCLUDING  THE  CURRENT  BOARD  OF
 DIRECTORS  AND MEMBERS OF THE LIMITED LIABILITY ENTITY, AND ANY CONTRAC-
 TORS INVOLVED WITH MAJOR FUNCTIONS OF THE FACILITY, INCLUDING  STAFFING,
 FOOD, AND LINEN SERVICE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14894-01-6

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2025-A10312A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9555
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803, Pub Health L

2025-A10312A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to information that residential health care facilities are required to separately disclose to residents and their families; requires such information to be posted on the residential health care facility's website.

2025-A10312A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 10312--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  information  that
   residential  health  care  facilities are required to provide to resi-
   dents and their families

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 2803 of the public health law, as
 added by chapter 344 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   13. The commissioner shall require each residential health care facil-
 ity to provide residents and their families with a separate document, as
 part  of  an intake application, in no less than twelve-point font, that
 includes information on  how  a  potential  resident  and  their  family
 members  can  look  up  complaints,  citations, inspections, enforcement
 actions, and penalties taken against the  facility,  including  the  web
 address  for  the  New  York state nursing home profiles website that is
 maintained by the department and the nursing home compare website  main-
 tained  by the United States department of health and human services, if
 applicable. SUCH INFORMATION SHALL ALSO INCLUDE AN  EXPLANATION  OF  THE
 OWNERSHIP  STRUCTURE  OF  THE  FACILITY,  INCLUDING THE CURRENT BOARD OF
 DIRECTORS AND MEMBERS OF THE LIMITED LIABILITY ENTITY, AND ANY  CONTRAC-
 TORS  INVOLVED WITH MAJOR FUNCTIONS OF THE FACILITY, INCLUDING STAFFING,
 FOOD, AND LINEN SERVICE.  EACH RESIDENTIAL HEALTH  CARE  FACILITY  SHALL
 ALSO  POST  SUCH INFORMATION ON THE FACILITY'S WEBSITE. THE COMMISSIONER
 SHALL PUBLISH INFORMATION RELATED TO THE FACILITY'S OWNERSHIP  STRUCTURE
 AND  CONTRACTORS,  AS  PROVIDED  BY SUCH FACILITY, ON THE NEW YORK STATE
 NURSING HOME PROFILES WEBSITE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14894-02-6

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