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  a
    11  result 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
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