STATE OF NEW YORK
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3185
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, MAY, RIVERA -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing informa-
tion on where a list of violations and other actions taken against the
facility can be found
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 13 to read as follows:
3 13. The commissioner shall require each residential health care facil-
4 ity to provide residents and their families with a separate document, as
5 part of an intake application, in no less than twelve-point font, that
6 includes information on how a potential resident and their family
7 members can look up complaints, citations, inspections, enforcement
8 actions, and penalties taken against the facility including the web
9 address for the New York state nursing home profiles website that is
10 maintained by the department and the nursing home compare website main-
11 tained by the United States department of health and human services, if
12 applicable.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06375-01-1
