Bill Text: NY A02734 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires hospitals and residential health care facilities to have a three-month supply of personal protective equipment in stock on the premises; requires the department of health to conduct an annual audit of the availability of such personal protective equipment in hospitals and residential health care facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A02734 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02734-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2734

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. J. A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  hospi-
          tals  and  residential  health  care  facilities to have a three-month
          supply of personal protective equipment in stock on the  premises  and
          requiring  the  department of health to conduct an annual audit of the
          availability of such personal protective equipment  in  hospitals  and
          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. Clause (B) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of  subdi-
     2  vision  12 of section 2803 of the public health law, as added by chapter
     3  114 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (B) a plan for such residential health care facility  to  maintain  or
     5  contract  to  have at least a [two-month] three-month supply of personal
     6  protective equipment; and
     7    § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new  section  2801-i
     8  to read as follows:
     9    §  2801-i.  Personal protective equipment. 1. Every hospital and resi-
    10  dential health care facility shall have at least a three-month supply of
    11  personal protective equipment in stock on the premises.
    12    2. The department shall conduct an annual audit to  ensure  compliance
    13  with  this  section  and  to maintain an accurate accounting of personal
    14  protective equipment inventory available throughout the  state.  In  the
    15  event of an emergency where a hospital or residential health care facil-
    16  ity  does  not have an adequate supply of personal protective equipment,
    17  the department may direct a hospital or residential health care facility
    18  to provide personal protective equipment to another hospital or residen-
    19  tial health care facility in the  state;  provided,  however,  that  the
    20  department  shall  reimburse  the  hospital  or  residential health care
    21  facility for any  personal  protective  equipment  provided  to  another
    22  hospital  or  residential  health care facility and shall replenish such
    23  items.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07240-01-3