A 5635: 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 ________________________________________________________________________ 5635 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 18, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FORREST -- 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. LBD06169-01-5