New York S 6747: Relates to the closure of the Rikers Island correctional facility within 3 years

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S06747 Summary:

BILL NOS06747 

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SPONSORWEBB

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Add §2832, Pub Health L

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Enacts the "safer health care facility construction act"; requires the commissioner of health to adopt infection control risk assessment (ICRA) standards to reduce the risk from infection in all health care facilities; requires all construction work performed on a new health care facility and on the expansion of an existing health care facility to be compliant with ICRA standards; requires people performing construction work on a health care facility be certified in compliance with ICRA standards.

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BILL NOS06747 

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03/21/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6747

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 21, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the
 "safer health care facility construction act"

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "safer health care facility construction act".
 3 § 2. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature finds that
 4 adopting infection control risk assessment (ICRA) standards for environ-
 5 mental infection control in health care facilities is a long-standing
 6 recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
 7 The legislature further finds that the CDC is the leading national
 8 organization in being a science-based, data driven, service organization
 9 that is charged with protecting the public health. Leading health care
 10 organizations such as the Cleveland Clinic, the Mayo Clinic, and Mass
 11 General Hospital have all embraced the adoption of ICRA standards in
 12 their health care facilities. Many of New York's leading health care
 13 facilities have also worked to implement ICRA standards including
 14 Buffalo General, the University of Rochester, Albany Medical Center,
 15 Saint Peter's, United Health Services, and Westchester Medical Center.
 16 Leading health care facilities both in New York state and around the
 17 nation have adopted ICRA standards to confront the danger of health care
 18 associated infections. On any given day, the CDC estimates that one in
 19 thirty-one hospital patients has a health care associated infection.
 20 These infections have direct medical costs of at least twenty-eight
 21 billion dollars annually. They also account for an additional twelve
 22 billion dollars in costs to society from early deaths and lost produc-
 23 tivity. The legislature has recognized the need for enhanced patient and
 24 worker safety having passed legislation to enact safe staffing levels in
 25 hospitals and nursing homes. Additionally, the legislature also passed

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06845-01-5

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 1 the New York health and essential rights (NY HERO) act to protect New
 2 Yorkers from airborne infectious diseases. Therefore, the legislature
 3 finds and declares that it should be the policy of the state of New York
 4 to require all new construction, renovation, remediation, repair, and
 5 demolition projects in health care facilities regulated by the state
 6 department of health to use ICRA standards to save lives by reducing
 7 health care associated infections and to protect patients, visitors, and
 8 workers.
 9 § 3. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2832 to
 10 read as follows:
 11 § 2832. Infection control risk assessment. 1. (a) Notwithstanding any
 12 other law or rule to the contrary, the commissioner shall promulgate
 13 rules and regulations, which shall be known as the "Infection Control
 14 Risk Assessment" or "ICRA" standards, to reduce the risk from infection
 15 in all health care faciliti