A 565: Prohibits the establishment of new for-profit hospices or increasing the capacity of existing for-profit hospices.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 565 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SIMON, SEAWRIGHT, HEVESI, ROSENTHAL, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, KELLES, SAYEGH, OTIS, SHIMSKY, KIM, RAGA, SIMONE, TAPIA, LEVENBERG, BRABENEC, MAHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the establishment, incorporation, construction, or increase in capacity of for-profit hospice 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 4004 of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows: 3 (a-1) No hospice shall be approved for establishment, incorporation or 4 construction if it is to be operated on a for-profit basis or by a for- 5 profit entity, in whole or in part. No increase in capacity shall be 6 approved for any existing hospice that is operated on a for-profit basis 7 or by a for-profit entity, in whole or in part. This paragraph applies 8 to any approval on or after the date on which it takes effect. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02902-01-5