STATE OF NEW YORK
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5506--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 9, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. HINCHEY, BORRELLO, MARTUCCI, SKOUFIS -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to hospice residence
in-patient beds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2-b of section 4002 of the public health law,
2 as amended by chapter 205 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2-b. "Hospice residence" means a hospice operated home which is resi-
5 dential in character and physical structure and operated for the purpose
6 of providing more than two hospice patients but not more than sixteen
7 hospice patients with hospice care, which may include dually certified
8 hospice in-patient beds up to [twenty-five percent of the hospice resi-
9 dence's patient capacity, or up to fifty] one hundred percent of the
10 hospice residence's patient capacity [with the commissioner's approval].
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00560-03-1
