Bill Text: NY A02400 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2400

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to municipal limited health care service facilities; diagnostic or treatment centers or other facilities managed and administered by a local health department for the purpose of providing limited health care services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-12-22 - approval memo.65 [A02400 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02400-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2400

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to municipal limited
          health care service facilities

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  2801-a  of  the  public health law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17. (a) Diagnostic or treatment centers or  other  facilities  managed
     4  and administered by a local health department for the purpose of provid-
     5  ing  limited  health care services as defined by the commissioner may be
     6  operated by a  local  health  department.    Such  facilities  shall  be
     7  referred  to  in  this  subdivision  as  "municipal  limited health care
     8  service facilities".
     9    (b) The commissioner shall promulgate regulations for municipal limit-
    10  ed health care service facilities, which may be different from the regu-
    11  lations otherwise applicable to hospitals, including,  but  not  limited
    12  to:  designating  or  limiting  the  diagnoses  and services that may be
    13  provided; employee health requirements; and requirements  or  guidelines
    14  for advertising and signage, disclosure of ownership interests, informed
    15  consent,  record  keeping, referral for treatment, case reporting to the
    16  patient's  primary  care  or  other  health  care   providers,   design,
    17  construction, fixtures, and equipment.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05214-01-3