Bill Text: NY A06222 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires translations of a patient's rights into the six most common non-English languages of New York State; relates to the posting of information relating to the long-term care ombudsman program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-10 - substituted by s4377 [A06222 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06222-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6222

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 10, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  trans-
          lations  of  a  patient's  rights;  and  in relation to the posting of
          information relating to the long-term care ombudsman program

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  2803-c  of  the  public health law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. The department shall translate and make available to all facilities
     4  the statement in the six most common  non-English  languages  spoken  by
     5  individuals  with limited-English proficiency in New York state as based
     6  on the most recent census. Each facility shall post and  make  available
     7  copies of said statement for residents.
     8    § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2803-c-1
     9  to read as follows:
    10    §  2803-c-1.  Rights  of patients in certain medical facilities; long-
    11  term care ombudsman program. The commissioner shall require  that  every
    12  nursing  home  and  residential  health  care  facility providing health
    13  related service, as defined in subdivisions two and three and  paragraph
    14  (b)  of  subdivision  four  of  section twenty-eight hundred one of this
    15  article, prominently post in each resident's room,  contact  information
    16  for  the  state  and  regional  offices  of the long term care ombudsman
    17  program as provided for in section two hundred  eighteen  of  the  elder
    18  law,  as  well  as  contact information for the facility representative.
    19  Such nursing homes and residential health  care  facilities  shall  also
    20  provide  updated  contact information for the state and regional offices
    21  and facility representatives to all residents and their families twice a
    22  year.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately  provided,  however,  that
    24  the  provisions  of section two of this act shall take effect on the one
    25  hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09449-01-1