Bill Text: NY S07313 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the admission of COVID-19 positive residents to residential facilities for persons with developmental disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO DISABILITIES [S07313 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S07313-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7313 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 19, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabil- ities AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to prohibiting the admission of COVID-19 positive residents to residential facilities for persons with developmental disabilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 2 13.44 to read as follows: 3 § 13.44 Admission of COVID-19 positive residents. 4 Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation or guidance to the contrary, 5 no residential facility for the care and treatment of persons with 6 developmental disabilities including a family care home shall knowingly 7 allow a resident who has tested positive for COVID-19 to enter or reen- 8 ter that facility as a temporary or permanent resident unless such 9 person provides proof of a negative test for COVID-19. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09165-01-3
