Relates to allowing a nursing home patient to install, operate and maintain, at his or her own expense, an electronic monitoring device in his or her room.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10703
IN ASSEMBLY
May 10, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing a
nursing home patient to install, operate and maintain an electronic
monitoring device in his or her room
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2803-c of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph q to read as follows:
3 q. Pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner, every
4 patient shall have the right, at his or her own expense, to install,
5 operate and maintain an electronic monitoring device in his or her room.
6 For the purposes of this section, the term "electronic monitoring
7 device" shall mean a surveillance instrument with a fixed position video
8 camera or an audio recording device, or a combination thereof, which is
9 installed in a patient's room and broadcasts or records activity or
10 sounds occurring in such room.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
13 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
14 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
15 and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13860-01-7
