Bill Text: NY S01788 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows an adult home, enriched housing facility, assisted living residence or special needs assisted living residence to provide for nursing services in the facility that are not continual, either by arrangement with a provider of nursing services or by employment.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01788 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01788-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1788
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 16, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to allowing certain
          adult care facilities to arrange for limited nursing services
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  461-c  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
     3    6-a. (a) Pursuant to regulations of the  commissioner  of  health,  an
     4  adult  home,  enriched  housing  facility,  assisted living residence or
     5  special needs assisted living residence operator may provide for nursing
     6  services in the facility  for  residents  of  the  facility,  either  by
     7  arrangement  with  a provider of nursing services or by employment, that
     8  are not continual and would not violate admission and  retention  stand-
     9  ards  under this section, and under circumstances and subject to limita-
    10  tions provided in the regulations. An  operator  arranging  for  nursing
    11  services  shall provide notice to the department of health in a form and
    12  manner required by the department.
    13    (b)  No operator electing to provide such nursing services may  repre-
    14  sent  to  the  public  that  the  adult home, enriched housing facility,
    15  assisted living residence or special needs assisted living residence  is
    16  an  enhanced  assisted living residence or offers aging in place as such
    17  terms are defined under section forty-six hundred fifty-one  of  article
    18  forty-six-B  of  the public health law, except as otherwise permitted by
    19  law.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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