Requires the department of health to prepare a report on the number of surplus ventilators within the state at the conclusion of the COVID-19 state of emergency.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8237
IN SENATE
April 27, 2020
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Introduced by Sens. JORDAN, ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT in relation to requiring the department of health to prepare a
report on the number of surplus ventilators within the state at the
conclusion of the COVID-19 state of emergency
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The department of health shall prepare a report on the
2 quantity of surplus ventilators and personal protection equipment
3 located in storage or reserve within the state upon the conclusion of
4 the state of emergency declared by executive order 202 that began on
5 March 7, 2020. Such report shall list every warehouse or other storage
6 location where such equipment is being stored and identify the quantity
7 of ventilators and personal protection equipment located within each
8 such warehouse or other storage location. Such list of warehouses and
9 other storage locations shall be divided into regional groups. For the
10 purpose of this act, "regional groups" shall mean the ten economic
11 development regions established by the New York state department of
12 economic development pursuant to section 230 of the economic development
13 law.
14 § 2. The department of health shall deliver such report to the gover-
15 nor, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the assembly,
16 the temporary president of the senate and the minority leader of the
17 senate no later than thirty days after the state of emergency declared
18 by executive order 202 that began on March 7, 2020 has been lifted.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16135-02-0
