A 1023: Requires video communication devices for patients or residents in nursing homes, hospitals or facilities providing health related services when visitor access is limited; requires that as part of a disaster preparedness plan that nursing homes, adult homes, enriched housing programs, and assisted living facilities provide video communication devices to patients for use when visitor access is limited, including, but not limited to during a designated state of emergency or a state disaster emergency.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1023 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DAVILA, ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT, EICHENSTEIN, RIVERA, SIMON, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, CUNNINGHAM, RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to video communi- cation devices for patients or residents in nursing homes, hospitals or facilities providing health related services; and to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring as part of a disaster preparedness plan that nursing homes, adult homes, enriched housing programs, and assisted living facilities provide video communication devices to patients 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. Pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner, every 4 patient of a nursing home, hospital or facility providing health related 5 services, shall have the right to video communication devices for use 6 when visitor access is limited, including, but not limited to during flu 7 season or during a designated state of emergency or a state disaster 8 emergency. 9 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 23-b of the executive law is amended by 10 adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows: 11 (e) Providing video communication devices for use when visitor access 12 is limited, including, but not limited to during a designated state of 13 emergency or a state disaster emergency. 14 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment 16 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation 17 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 18 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00269-01-5