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Assembly Bill A5635

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring telephones capable of making local and long-distance telephone calls be in every nursing home patient's room

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2025-A5635 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5920
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9532
2023-2024: A8277, S4242

2025-A5635 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring telephones capable of making local and long-distance telephone calls be in every nursing home patient's room, either at such patient's bedside or in the patient's room depending on the patient's mobility.

2025-A5635 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5635
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  requiring  tele-
   phones capable of making local and long-distance telephone calls be in
   every nursing home patient's room
 
   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. SUBJECT TO  REGULATIONS  PROMULGATED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER,  EVERY
 PATIENT  SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO A TELEPHONE CAPABLE OF MAKING LOCAL AND
 LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE CALLS AT  SUCH  PATIENT'S  BEDSIDE  OR  IN  SUCH
 PATIENT'S ROOM DEPENDING UPON THE MOBILITY OF THE PATIENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation 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.
                                                            LBD06169-01-5

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