Bill Text: NY A04980 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires residential health care facilities have in their pandemic emergency plan a plan or procedure for designating a separate cohort area.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A04980 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A04980-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4980 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 9, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to infection control planning in residential health care facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 13 to read as follows: 3 13. (a) The commissioner shall require residential health care facili- 4 ties, as part of their pandemic emergency plan, establish and implement 5 a plan or procedure designating a separate cohort area during an infec- 6 tious disease outbreak in the residential health care facility including 7 minimum standards for residential health care facilities infection 8 control cohorting policies and/or procedures and shall inspect and eval- 9 uate all residential health care facilities cohort area policies or 10 procedures. 11 (b) If a residential health care facility is unable to meet the mini- 12 mum standards established by the commissioner under this subdivision, 13 the facility may request approval for the waiver of this requirement. If 14 a facility is incapable of establishing such cohorting policies and/or 15 procedures, the commissioner may approve a waiver of a designated 16 cohorting area at a facility. 17 (c) If a residential health care facility's cohorting policy or proce- 18 dure is not approved by the commissioner, and the commissioner does not 19 approve a waiver, the residential health care facility shall be subject 20 to penalties determined by the commissioner. The commissioner shall 21 establish penalties for facilities that violate the requirements of this 22 subdivision which shall include, but are not limited to, license and/or 23 state reimbursements contingent on a submitted and approved plan or an 24 approved waiver. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02899-01-1
