Bill Text: NY S08003 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8003

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires reporting on the status of issues at residential health care facilities to the state long-term care ombudsman.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-02-07 - SIGNED CHAP.49 [S08003 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08003-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8003

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  requiring  the
          department  of  health  to  provide the state long-term care ombudsman
          with a report on the status of any issues  identified  by  residential
          health care facility staff or volunteers of the long-term care ombuds-
          man program

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a)  of  subdivision  14  of
     2  section  2803  of  the public health law, as amended by a chapter of the
     3  laws of 2023 amending the public health law relating  to  the  reporting
     4  and  resolution of issues at residential care facilities, as proposed in
     5  legislative bills numbers S. 7211 and A. 7218,  is  amended  and  a  new
     6  paragraph (c) is added to read as follows:
     7    (ii)  timely and regular resolution to any such issues reported to the
     8  department pursuant to subparagraph (i) of this paragraph. No later than
     9  sixty days after the receipt of any such  issue,  the  department  shall
    10  provide the [staff or volunteer who reported such issue] state long-term
    11  care  ombudsman  a  report  on  the  status of such issue. Following the
    12  initial report, the department shall provide additional reports to [such
    13  staff or volunteer] the state long-term  care  ombudsman  no  less  than
    14  every [sixty] ninety days thereafter until such issue is resolved.  Upon
    15  resolution  of  such issue, the department shall provide a timely report
    16  to [such staff or volunteer and]  the  state  long-term  care  ombudsman
    17  indicating the manner in which the issue was resolved; and
    18    (c)  As  used in this subdivision: (i) "resolution" shall mean closure
    19  of a complaint by the department, whether  closed  as  substantiated  or
    20  unsubstantiated;  and (ii) "status" shall mean whether the complaint has
    21  been  assigned  to  department  staff  for  investigation,  whether  the
    22  complaint  remains  open  under  active  investigation,  or  whether the
    23  complaint has reached resolution.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    25  manner  as  a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public health law
    26  relating to the reporting and resolution of issues at  residential  care
    27  facilities,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills numbers S. 7211 and A.
    28  7218, takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11325-04-4