STATE OF NEW YORK
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5967
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 12, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to applications for a
license to operate an assisted living residence
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 4656 of the public health law, as added by chapter
2 2 of the laws of 2004, is amended by adding a new subdivision 4-a to
3 read as follows:
4 4-a. The department shall have ninety days after an assisted living
5 residence application, an enhanced assisted living residence applica-
6 tion, or a special needs assisted living residence application has been
7 received by the department, to grant a license to the applicant. If
8 licensure has not been granted within this time frame, the department
9 shall grant a provisional license to the applicant, or provide the
10 applicant with a comprehensive and final list of incomplete and
11 outstanding information required in order to grant the license. Once the
12 outstanding information has been received by the department, the depart-
13 ment shall have sixty days to grant a license to the applicant. Further,
14 for all assisted living residence, enhanced assisted living residence,
15 and special needs assisted living residence applications submitted to
16 the department prior to the effective date of this subdivision, the
17 department shall have ninety days from such effective date to grant a
18 provisional license to the applicant, or provide the applicant with a
19 comprehensive and final list of incomplete and outstanding information
20 required in order to grant the license. Once the outstanding information
21 has been received by the department, the department shall have sixty
22 days to grant a license to the applicant.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05854-01-3
