Requires adult care facilities to include demographic information, including race or ethnicity, in certain admission and discharge records maintained by the facility.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8813
IN SENATE
April 20, 2022
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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 requiring adult
care facilities to include certain demographic information in certain
records maintained by the facility
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 461-e of the social services law,
2 as added by chapter 601 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5. The department may promulgate regulations which require each adult
5 care facility to maintain the following written records and any other
6 such records, under such conditions and for such time, as may be
7 prescribed pursuant to such regulations: (i) a chronological admission
8 and discharge register consisting of a listing of residents registered
9 in and discharged from such facility by name, age, race or ethnicity,
10 sex of resident, and place from or to which the resident is registered
11 or discharged, (ii) a daily census record, (iii) a personal non-medical
12 record for each resident, including but not limited to, identification
13 of his or her next-of-kin, family and sponsor, the name and address of
14 the person or persons to be contacted in the event of an emergency, and
15 all details of the referral and registration and non-medical correspond-
16 ence and papers concerning the resident, (iv) a financial record for
17 each resident, including but not limited to, copies of all agreements,
18 resident account records and a current inventory of personal property
19 being held by the operator.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
22 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
23 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
24 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14629-01-2
