Bill Text: NY A10494 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 10494 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Permits any uninsured individual to receive free coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing; such information shall be afforded confidentiality protection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-23 - REFERRED TO RULES [A10494 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10494-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                        10494--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 22, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gottfried)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health --  reported  and
          referred  to  the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee

        AN  ACT  permitting any uninsured individual to receive free coronavirus
          disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding  any provision to the contrary, any unin-
     2  sured individual, regardless of immigration status shall be eligible for
     3  coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing at no cost.  All information
     4  collected pursuant to this act shall be  confidential  as  provided  for
     5  under  state,  federal or any other applicable law related to the confi-
     6  dential treatment of patient and medical data. Access to  such  informa-
     7  tion  shall  be limited and used only to the extent that the information
     8  is necessary to protect public health.
     9    § 2. Funding, within available appropriations, shall be  provided  for
    10  testing pursuant to section one of this act.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15976-04-0