Bill Text: NY A07775 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes, upon approval of the commissioner of health, a hospice residence to have up to 50% of its resident capacity be dually certified hospice inpatient beds.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-08-21 - signed chap.205 [A07775 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A07775-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7775--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 15, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the authorized capacity of hospice residences of dually certified hospice inpatient beds The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2-b of section 4002 of the public health law, 2 as amended by chapter 512 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2-b. "Hospice residence" means a hospice operated home which is resi- 5 dential in character and physical structure and operated for the purpose 6 of providing more than two hospice patients but not more than sixteen 7 hospice patients with hospice care, which may include dually certified 8 hospice in-patient beds up to twenty-five percent of the hospice resi- 9 dence's patient capacity, or up to fifty percent of the hospice resi- 10 dence's patient capacity with the commissioner's approval. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11444-03-7
