STATE OF NEW YORK
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8274
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 11, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to limitations on the
processing and approval of applications seeking licensure of a
licensed home care services agency
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 4 and 6 of section 3605 of the public health
2 law, as amended by section 9-b of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of
3 2018, are amended to read as follows:
4 4. The public health and health planning council shall not approve an
5 application for licensure unless it is satisfied as to[: (a) the public
6 need for the existence of the licensed home health care service agency
7 at the time and place and under the circumstances proposed; (b)] the
8 character, competence and standing in the community of the applicant's
9 incorporators, directors, sponsors, stockholders or operators[; (c) the
10 financial resources of the proposed licensed home health care service
11 agency and its sources of financial revenues; and (d) such other matters
12 as it shall deem pertinent].
13 6. Neither public need, tax status nor profit-making status shall be
14 criteria for licensure.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
16 manner as section 9-b of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2018, takes
17 effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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