Bill Text: NY A09521 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to rights of residents of adult care facilities; provides that residents have a right to be informed about their condition, treatment and medications.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-04-17 - SIGNED CHAP.83 [A09521 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A09521-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9521 IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to adult care facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 3 of section 461-d of the 2 social services law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending 3 the social services law relating to adult care facilities, as proposed 4 in legislative bills numbers S. 874 and A. 1084, is amended to read as 5 follows: 6 (m) Every resident or, in the case of a person who lacks capacity to 7 consent to his or her health care, a person legally authorized to 8 consent on behalf of the resident, shall have the right to choose the 9 resident's own health care providers for services not covered by his or 10 her admission agreement[, subject to limitations that may apply as a11result of a resident's third party payor coverage]. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 13 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending the social services law 14 relating to adult care facilities, as proposed in legislative bills 15 numbers S. 874 and A. 1084, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03365-02-0