Bill Text: NY A10564 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the Commissioner of Health to promulgate rules and regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities to test all residents of such nursing homes and residential healthcare facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-03 - referred to health [A10564 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10564-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10564

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 3, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jacobson) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN  ACT  requiring  the  commissioner  of health to promulgate rules and
          regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facil-
          ities to test all residents of  such  nursing  homes  and  residential
          health care facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

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

     1    Section 1. (a) Within 14 days after the effective date  of  this  act,
     2  the  commissioner  of  health  shall  promulgate  rules  and regulations
     3  requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities  to  test
     4  all  residents of such nursing homes and residential health care facili-
     5  ties for the novel coronavirus  (COVID-19)  during  the  state  disaster
     6  emergency  declared  pursuant  to Executive Order Number 202 of 2020, as
     7  amended, every 30 days, and additionally, within one week after a member
     8  of the staff of the facility or nursing home or another  resident  tests
     9  positive  for  COVID-19, and for sixty days after the expiration of such
    10  Executive Order, as amended.
    11    (b) Sixty days after the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to
    12  Executive Order Number 202 of 2020, as amended, has ended, all residents
    13  of nursing homes and residential health care facilities shall be  tested
    14  for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) within 7 days after a member of the
    15  staff  or  another  resident  of such nursing home or residential health
    16  care facility tests positive for the novel  coronavirus  (COVID-19)  and
    17  shall subsequently be tested 30 days thereafter.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16550-04-0