New York A 9471: Relates to conditions under which certain residential health care facilities may withdraw equity or assets totaling five percent of reported annual revenue for patient care services without prior notification

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A09471 Summary:

BILL NOA09471 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08804

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSRSayegh

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2808, Pub Health L; amd §4, Chap of 2025 (as proposed in S.5369 & A.2051)

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Relates to conditions under which non-public residential health care facilities may withdraw equity or assets totaling five percent of total reported annual revenue for patient care services without prior notification to the commissioner of health.

Go to top A09471 Actions:

BILL NOA09471 

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01/07/2026referred to health

02/04/2026reported referred to rules

02/04/2026reported 

02/04/2026rules report cal.73

02/04/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.73

02/05/2026substituted by s8804

&nbspS08804 AMEND= RIVERA

&nbsp01/08/2026REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp01/12/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.32

&nbsp01/21/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp01/21/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp01/21/2026referred to health

&nbsp02/05/2026substituted for a9471

&nbsp02/05/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.73

&nbsp02/05/2026passed assembly

&nbsp02/05/2026returned to senate

&nbsp02/13/2026DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp02/13/2026SIGNED CHAP.78

Go to topA09471 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:HEALTH Chair:Paulin 
DATE:02/04/2026AYE/NAY:24/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PaulinAyeJensenAye

DinowitzAyeGandolfoAye

RosenthalAyeBlumencranzAye

HevesiAyeGrayAye

SteckAyeSlaterAye

BraunsteinAyeChludzinskiAye

Bichotte HermelExcusedNorberAye

SayeghAyeDursoAye

McDonaldAye

ReyesAye

Gonzalez-RojasAye

RajkumarAye

ForrestAye

KellesAye

LucasAye

MeeksAye

LunsfordAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Heastie 
DATE:02/04/2026AYE/NAY:28/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookExcusedBlankenbushExcused

GlickAyeRaAye

DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye

ColtonAyePalmesanoAye

MagnarelliAyeReillyAye

PaulinAyeSmithAye

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA09471 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA09471 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9471

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 7, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to conditions under
 which non-public residential health care facilities may withdraw equi-
 ty or assets totaling five percent of total reported annual revenue
 for patient care services without prior notification; and to amend a
 chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the public health law relating to
 equity withdrawals by non-public residential health care facilities,
 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5369 and A. 2051, in
 relation to the effectiveness thereof

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) and subparagraph (ii) of
 2 paragraph (c) of subdivision 5 of section 2808 of the public health law,
 3 as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the public health
 4 law relating to equity withdrawals by non-public residential health care
 5 facilities, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5369 and A.
 6 2051, are amended to read as follows:
 7 (ii) in the case of a residential health care facility which[,] (1)
 8 over the two immediately preceding successive quarters for which rele-
 9 vant data is available to the department, has been compliant with the
 10 minimum staffing level requirements prescribed by section twenty-eight
 11 hundred ninety-five-b of this chapter[,]; (2) is not in the special
 12 focus facility program operated by the centers for medicare and Medicaid
 13 services or subject to a denial of payment for new admissions imposed by
 14 the centers for medicare and Medicaid services; and (3) has not been the
 15 subject of an enforcement action brought by the department or the
 16 centers for medicare and Medicaid services in the previous eighteen
 17 months that resulted in a finding of deficiency, five percent of such
 18 facility's total reported annual revenue for patient care services,
 19 based on the