Bill Text: NY A07903 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes public, private and charter elementary and secondary schools, school age child care programs and child day care centers within the state of New York, assisted living facilities, adult homes, continuing care retirement communities and other senior living residences within the state of New York in the definition of originating site.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to health [A07903 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07903-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7903
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 29, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including  certain
         facilities in the definition of originating site
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2999-cc of the public health  law,
    2  as  added  by  chapter  6  of  the  laws  of 2015, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    3. "Originating site" means a site at which a patient  is  located  at
    5  the  time  health  care services are delivered to him or her by means of
    6  telehealth. Originating sites shall be limited  to  facilities  licensed
    7  under  articles  twenty-eight  and  forty of this chapter, facilities as
    8  defined in subdivision six of section 1.03 of the  mental  hygiene  law,
    9  private  physician's  offices  located  within  the  state  of New York,
   10  PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND CHARTER ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SCHOOL AGE
   11  CHILD CARE PROGRAMS AND CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS WITHIN THE STATE  OF  NEW
   12  YORK,  ASSISTED  LIVING FACILITIES, ADULT HOMES, CONTINUING CARE RETIRE-
   13  MENT COMMUNITIES AND OTHER SENIOR LIVING RESIDENCES WITHIN THE STATE  OF
   14  NEW YORK, and, when a patient is receiving health care services by means
   15  of  remote  patient monitoring, the patient's place of residence located
   16  within the state of New York or other temporary location located  within
   17  or outside the state of New York.
   18    S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
   19  manner as chapter 6 of the laws of 2015 takes effect.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11326-01-5