A 5708: Requires hospitals and residential health care facilities to have a three-month supply of personal protective equipment in stock on the premises; requires the department of health to conduct an annual audit of the availability of such personal protective equipment in hospitals and residential health care facilities.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5708 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi- tals and residential health care facilities to have a three-month supply of personal protective equipment in stock on the premises and requiring the department of health to conduct an annual audit of the availability of such personal protective equipment in hospitals and residential health care facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Clause (B) of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdi- 2 vision 12 of section 2803 of the public health law, as added by chapter 3 114 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 4 (B) a plan for such residential health care facility to maintain or 5 contract to have at least a [two-month] three-month supply of personal 6 protective equipment; and 7 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2801-i 8 to read as follows: 9 § 2801-i. Personal protective equipment. 1. Every hospital and resi- 10 dential health care facility shall have at least a three-month supply of 11 personal protective equipment in stock on the premises. 12 2. The department shall conduct an annual audit to ensure compliance 13 with this section and to maintain an accurate accounting of personal 14 protective equipment inventory available throughout the state. In the 15 event of an emergency where a hospital or residential health care facil- 16 ity does not have an adequate supply of personal protective equipment, 17 the department may direct a hospital or residential health care facility 18 to provide personal protective equipment to another hospital or residen- 19 tial health care facility in the state; provided, however, that the 20 department shall reimburse the hospital or residential health care 21 facility for any personal protective equipment provided to another 22 hospital or residential health care facility and shall replenish such 23 items. 24 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02332-01-5