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NYS02633Intro
25%
Direct the department of health to complete a report of the impact of hospital closures on healthcare access in the state.
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2025-01-22
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NYS02652Intro
25%
Relates to safe staffing levels at nursing homes; requires the department of health to give significant weight to labor supply shortages in particular regions during any declared statewide disaster emergency.
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2025-01-22
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NYS02661Intro
25%
Relates to including senior citizens as vulnerable populations eligible for supportive housing.
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2025-01-22
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NYS02567Intro
25%
Waives certain requirements of the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children during a state of emergency declared as a result of a public health crisis, including: allowing any unused portions of any monthly allowances to...
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2025-01-21
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NYS02625Intro
25%
Allows a licensed pharmacist to prescribe and order FDA-approved medication assisted therapy under a non-patient-specific regimen for the treatment of opioid use disease.
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2025-01-21
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NYS02515Intro
25%
Allows geriatricians to apply for both the physician loan repayment program and the physician practice support program, provided such geriatrician agrees to practice geriatrics for at least 5 years.
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2025-01-21
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NYS02518Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of health to conduct an investigation of the department's performance, compliance and enforcement of applicable state laws, rules, regulations, and directives or executive orders, with respect to mitigating the impact of COVI...
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2025-01-21
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NYS02438Intro
25%
Requires potable water testing at state and local parks at least once every three years and any finding of lead contamination must be abated within ninety days.
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2025-01-17
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NYS02400Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of health to establish a blood clot and pulmonary embolism policy workgroup.
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2025-01-17
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NYS02449Intro
25%
Requires Medicare and Medicaid managed care providers to provide coverage for certain out-of-network health care when the patient has a long term relationship with a medical professional who is not a recurring provider under the managed care provider...
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2025-01-17
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NYS02319Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of health to require each licensed home care service agency to submit an infection control plan and periodic reports detailing measures taken to protect clients from infection.
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2025-01-16
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NYS02383Intro
25%
Relates to the classification of the drug xylazine as a schedule I controlled substance, and to the criminal sale and possession of xylazine or preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances containing xylazine.
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2025-01-16
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NYS02332Intro
25%
Repeals managed long term care provisions for Medicaid recipients; establishes provisions for fully integrated plans for long term care including PACE and MAP plans.
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2025-01-16
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NYS02223Intro
25%
Enacts the tobacco product waste reduction act prohibiting the sale or offering for sale of cigarettes utilizing single-use filters and single-use electronic cigarettes.
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2025-01-16
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NYS02228Intro
25%
Provides for a premium reduction for physicians and licensed midwives who complete a risk management strategies course in obstetrics or midwifery.
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2025-01-16
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NYS02278Intro
25%
Requires hospitals to have a registered professional nurse as a sitting and voting member of the governing entity responsible for developing a hospital's strategic plan, structure, systems, policies and programs.
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2025-01-16
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NYS02045Intro
25%
Relates to the notification of county boards of elections of an individual's death and the subsequent removal of such voter's name from the applicable registration roll.
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2025-01-15
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NYS02150Intro
25%
Requires primary care physicians to post certain information detailing how parents or guardians of infants and children can subscribe to the United States consumer product safety commission's e-mail subscription lists.
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2025-01-15
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NYS02165Intro
25%
Prohibits hospital interference with patient care where the practitioner is acting in good faith and within the scope of their practice.
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2025-01-15
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NYS01918Intro
25%
Establishes a specialized health home program to serve certain individuals with physical disabilities who are Medicaid eligible adults eighteen years of age or older with a diagnosis of a neurological, muscular, or neuromuscular condition, and a mobi...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01813Intro
25%
Relates to medical assistance for patients in the process of oral or injectable ovulation enhancing drugs.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01967Intro
25%
Establishes that providers of adult day health care and managed long term care plans may elect to use transportation management brokers; provides that programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) are not required to use transportation manage...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01964Intro
25%
Conforms and improves the process for determining incapacity.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01999Intro
25%
Imposes a nursing home purchase moratorium on those who own or have owned failing facilities for twenty-four months since their last violation.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01973Intro
25%
Relates to prohibiting supervised injection sites; provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to own, operate, work in or volunteer at a supervised injection site; defines terms and establishes penalties.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01914Intro
25%
Grants medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for residents of New York with end-stage renal disease who are otherwise eligible for benefits except for their immigration status.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01987Intro
25%
Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services to all patients requiring such services; provides, that if the hospital is at ninety percent capacity or greater, such hospital shall connect the patient to an alternative fac...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01968Intro
25%
Prohibits the public health and health planning council and the commissioner of health from approving the establishment, incorporation, construction, or increase in capacity of for-profit nursing homes.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01965Intro
25%
Restores medical futility as a basis for DNR.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01963Intro
25%
Authorizes retail clinics to provide certain services; directs the commissioner of health to enact regulations imposing certain standards and restrictions.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01858Intro
25%
Expands protections regarding violations of safety conditions in adult care facilities; provides penalties for safety violations and operating without a valid license; prohibits reductions in fines in certain circumstances where a patient is endanger...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01911Intro
25%
Clarifies provisions regarding health care professional applications and terminations.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01816Intro
25%
Relates to the definition of elevated blood lead levels; provides that elevated lead levels means a blood lead level greater than or equal to 3.5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood or such lower blood lead level as may be established by ...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01998Intro
25%
Requires the department of health to conduct 40% of its inspections on nursing homes outside of business hours; requires department of health inspections of nursing homes to be conducted without prior notice to a nursing home; requires an annual nurs...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01957Intro
25%
Authorizes certain persons to possess and administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-injector device upon completion of appropriate training; requires the department of health to establish a registry of the names of lay persons trained in t...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01917Intro
25%
Establishes an emergency insulin program and corresponding emergency insulin program trust fund to facilitate emergency access to analog insulins.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01912Intro
25%
Requires medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy for the purpose of disease management.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01894Intro
25%
Enacts Paige's law to provide education and awareness regarding brain arteriovenous malformation and brain aneurysms, as well as information on being a potential carrier of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, thoracic aortic aneurysms, Marfan synd...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01875Intro
25%
Relates to creating the medical professionals across rural New York state student loan repayment fund pilot program for certain participating professionals that make a two year commitment to practice in a tract or county defined by the health resourc...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01807Intro
25%
Prohibits charging a fee for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or fetal death.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01940Intro
25%
Requires enhanced federal medical assistance percentage funds be directly shared with the counties and the city of New York; requires the comptroller examine and audit all funds received from the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage and the...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01916Intro
25%
Establishes the category of "qualified group practice" for medical, dental and podiatric practices that comply with certain standards and authorizes such practices to operate a malpractice prevention program.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01857Intro
25%
Establishes a three-year pilot hospital medical debt relief program to provide hospital medical debt relief to eligible residents of the state utilizing a not-for-profit organization to identify, acquire and cancel medical debt of such eligible resid...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01913Intro
25%
Relates to establishing the "340B prescription drug anti-discrimination act"; prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers from discriminating against covered entities and New York state pharmacies based on participation in th...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01915Intro
25%
Amends certain definitions relating to tobacco products; changes the minimum pack sizes for tobacco products and the tax amount for tobacco products.
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2025-01-14
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NYS01855Intro
25%
Strengthens protections for patients regarding sexual misconduct by medical providers; requires medical expert consultants involved in investigations disclose conflicts of interest and to not be under investigation, on warning, or on probation; requi...
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2025-01-14
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NYS01786Intro
25%
Requires the department of health to publish a report on the incidence of tick-borne illnesses annually on the department's website; requires the department to submit an annual report to the governor and the leaders of the legislature; requires the s...
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2025-01-13
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NYS01714Intro
25%
Prohibits the use of the term "excited delirium" as a diagnosis, label, or cause of death on death certificates, autopsy reports, police reports or any report, policy or procedure by a public agency or contractor; defines excited delirium.
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2025-01-13
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NYS01758Intro
25%
Allows for certain disability benefits to continue in the event an individual who is receiving such benefits gets married; provides that the marriage to another individual which would otherwise make an individual ineligible for certain disability ben...
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2025-01-13
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NYS01633Intro
25%
Provides additional protections for sensitive health information and requires all health information networks, electronic health record systems, and health care providers to provide patients with a right to restrict the disclosures of such patient's ...
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2025-01-13
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