Directs the department of health to conduct a study on opening three new veterans nursing homes in New York state; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5666
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 26, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. ASHBY, MURRAY, OBERACKER, RHOADS, ROLISON, WEBER,
WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit-
ted to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to direct the department of health to conduct a study on opening
three new veterans nursing homes in New York state; and providing for
the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. 1. (a) The department of health shall conduct a study in
2 relation to opening three new veterans nursing homes in New York state.
3 (b) Such study shall include, but not be limited to:
4 i. the best locations in New York state to site three new veterans
5 nursing homes;
6 ii. the staffing requirements for such veterans nursing homes based on
7 projected demand for beds in such nursing homes; and
8 iii. the costs associated with opening three new veterans nursing
9 homes.
10 2. On or before one year from the effective date of this act, the
11 department of health shall submit such study to the governor, the tempo-
12 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, all members
13 of the senate committee on veterans, homeland security and military
14 affairs, and the assembly committee on veterans services.
15 3. The department of health may request, and is authorized to receive,
16 any information from any state agency that is relevant and material to
17 the completion of such study. Such information received by the depart-
18 ment of health shall be subject to the same requirements for confiden-
19 tiality and limitations on use, if any, as are applicable to such state
20 agency's use of such information.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
22 deemed repealed one year after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03595-01-5
