Bill Text: NY A10426 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that nursing home patients who have previously tested positive for COVID-19 shall produce a negative test result before he or she can be readmitted to such nursing home
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-11 - referred to health [A10426 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10426-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10426 IN ASSEMBLY May 11, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. D. Rosen- thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT in relation to requiring that nursing home patients who have previously tested positive for COVID-19 shall produce a negative test result before he or she can be readmitted to such nursing home The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a nursing home 2 resident who has been admitted to a hospital as a result of testing 3 positive for COVID-19 shall not be readmitted to such nursing home 4 unless such resident submits to retesting for COVID-19 by a licensed 5 medical professional and can produce a negative test result, irrespec- 6 tive of whether such resident's COVID-19 symptoms have subsided. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16341-01-0
