Mikulin, Durso, Lemondes, Manktelow, Brown E, Beephan, Tague, DeStefano, Gandolfo, Giglio JA,
Hawley, McDonough, Forrest, Sayegh
MLTSPNSR
Amd §2803-c, Pub Health L
Relates to requiring telephones capable of making local and long-distance telephone calls be in every nursing home patient's room, either at such patient's bedside or in the patient's room depending on the patient's mobility.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8277
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 27, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BENDETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring tele-
phones capable of making local and long-distance telephone calls be in
every nursing home patient's 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 s to read as follows:
3 s. Subject to regulations promulgated by the commissioner, every
4 patient shall have the right to a telephone capable of making local and
5 long-distance telephone calls at such patient's bedside or in such
6 patient's room depending upon the mobility of the patient.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
8 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
9 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
10 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
11 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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