A 7909: Provides that the department of health shall make available to licensed home care services agencies all platforms, applications, software, forms and other documents necessary for the licensed home care services agency to submit statistical reports associated with required registration materials.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7909 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY April 11, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the submission of certain reports by licensed home care services agencies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 3605-b of the 2 public health law, as added by section 9-d of part B of chapter 57 of 3 the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows: 4 (b) A LHCSA that fails to submit a complete and accurate set of all 5 required registration materials by the deadline established by the 6 commissioner shall be required to pay a fee of five hundred dollars for 7 each month or part thereof that the LHCSA is in default. The department 8 shall make available to LHCSAs all department platforms, applications, 9 software, software updates, templates, forms, and other documents that 10 are necessary for the LHCSA to submit statistical reports associated 11 with or related to such registration materials no less than ninety 12 calendar days prior to the deadline established by the commissioner to 13 submit such statistical reports. A LHCSA that failed to register in the 14 prior year by the deadline of the current year shall not be permitted to 15 register for the upcoming registration period unless it submits any 16 unpaid late fees. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11309-01-5