Assembly Bill A5708

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires hospitals and residential health care facilities to have a three-month supply of personal protective equipment in stock on the premises

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A5708 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803, add §2801-i, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A7915
2023-2024: A2734

2025-A5708 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hospitals and residential health care facilities to have a three-month supply of personal protective equipment in stock on the premises; requires the department of health to conduct an annual audit of the availability of such personal protective equipment in hospitals and residential health care facilities.

2025-A5708 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5708
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi-
   tals and residential health care  facilities  to  have  a  three-month
   supply  of  personal protective equipment in stock on the premises and
   requiring the department of health to conduct an annual audit  of  the
   availability  of  such  personal protective equipment in hospitals and
   residential health care facilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Clause (B) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdi-
 vision 12 of section 2803 of the public health law, as added by  chapter
 114 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (B)  a  plan  for such residential health care facility to maintain or
 contract to have at least a [two-month] THREE-MONTH supply  of  personal
 protective equipment; and
   §  2.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2801-i
 to read as follows:
   § 2801-I. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT. 1. EVERY HOSPITAL  AND  RESI-
 DENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY SHALL HAVE AT LEAST A THREE-MONTH SUPPLY OF
 PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT IN STOCK ON THE PREMISES.
   2.  THE  DEPARTMENT SHALL CONDUCT AN ANNUAL AUDIT TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE
 WITH THIS SECTION AND TO MAINTAIN AN  ACCURATE  ACCOUNTING  OF  PERSONAL
 PROTECTIVE  EQUIPMENT  INVENTORY  AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE STATE. IN THE
 EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY WHERE A HOSPITAL OR RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACIL-
 ITY DOES NOT HAVE AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF PERSONAL  PROTECTIVE  EQUIPMENT,
 THE DEPARTMENT MAY DIRECT A HOSPITAL OR RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY
 TO PROVIDE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT TO ANOTHER HOSPITAL OR RESIDEN-
 TIAL  HEALTH  CARE  FACILITY  IN  THE STATE; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE
 DEPARTMENT SHALL REIMBURSE  THE  HOSPITAL  OR  RESIDENTIAL  HEALTH  CARE
 FACILITY  FOR  ANY  PERSONAL  PROTECTIVE  EQUIPMENT  PROVIDED TO ANOTHER
 HOSPITAL OR RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY AND  SHALL  REPLENISH  SUCH
 ITEMS.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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