Bill Text: NY S06460 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits the establishment of new for-profit hospices or increasing the capacity of existing for-profit hospices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-30 - referred to health [S06460 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06460-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6460

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 20, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the establishment,
          incorporation, construction, or increase  in  capacity  of  for-profit
          hospice

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 4004 of the public health  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
     3    (a-1) No hospice shall be approved for establishment, incorporation or
     4  construction  if it is to be operated on a for-profit basis or by a for-
     5  profit entity, in whole or in part. No increase  in  capacity  shall  be
     6  approved for any existing hospice that is operated on a for-profit basis
     7  or  by  a for-profit entity, in whole or in part. This paragraph applies
     8  to any approval on or after the date on which it takes effect.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09884-01-3
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