STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

8869

IN SENATE

August 3, 2020 ___________

Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT requiring the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facil- ities to test all residents of such nursing homes and residential health care facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. (a) Within 14 days after the effective date of this act, 2 the commissioner of health shall promulgate rules and regulations 3 requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities to test 4 all residents of such nursing homes and residential health care facili- 5 ties for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) during the state disaster 6 emergency declared pursuant to Executive Order Number 202 of 2020, as 7 amended, every 30 days, and additionally, within one week after a member 8 of the staff of the facility or nursing home or another resident tests 9 positive for COVID-19, and for sixty days after the expiration of such 10 Executive Order, as amended. 11 (b) Sixty days after the state disaster emergency declared pursuant to 12 Executive Order Number 202 of 2020, as amended, has ended, all residents 13 of nursing homes and residential health care facilities shall be tested 14 for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) within 7 days after a member of the 15 staff or another resident of such nursing home or residential health 16 care facility tests positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and 17 shall subsequently be tested 30 days thereafter. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16550-04-0