Bill Text: NY A03596 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health to conduct a study on opening three new veterans nursing homes in New York state and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-26 - held for consideration in health [A03596 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03596-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3596

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ASHBY, MORINELLO, NORRIS, PALMESANO -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to direct the department of health to conduct a study on  opening
          three  new veterans nursing homes in New York state; and providing for
          the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  1.  (a) The department of health shall conduct a study in
     2  relation to opening three new veterans nursing homes in New York state.
     3    (b) Such study shall include, but not be limited to:
     4    i. the best locations in New York state to  site  three  new  veterans
     5  nursing homes;
     6    ii. the staffing requirements for such veterans nursing homes based on
     7  projected demand for beds in such nursing homes; and
     8    iii.  the  costs  associated  with  opening three new veterans nursing
     9  homes.
    10    2. On or before one year from the effective  date  of  this  act,  the
    11  department of health shall submit such study to the governor, the tempo-
    12  rary  president  of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, all members
    13  of the senate committee on  veterans,  homeland  security  and  military
    14  affairs, and the assembly committee on veterans services.
    15    3. The department of health may request, and is authorized to receive,
    16  any  information  from any state agency that is relevant and material to
    17  the completion of such study. Such information received by  the  depart-
    18  ment  of health  shall be subject to the same requirements for confiden-
    19  tiality and limitations on use, if any, as are applicable to such  state
    20  agency's use of such information.
    21    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    22  deemed repealed one year after such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06393-01-1