New York S 9620: Requires residential health care facilities to maintain hospice agreements to ensure access to hospice services for eligible residents

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S09620 Summary:

BILL NOS09620A

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SAME ASSAME AS A10310-B

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SPONSORSCARCELLA-SPANTON

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2808-g, Pub Health L

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Requires residential health care facilities to maintain hospice agreements to ensure access to hospice services for eligible residents.

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BILL NOS09620A

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03/30/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

04/30/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH

04/30/2026PRINT NUMBER 9620A

06/03/2026COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/03/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1661

06/03/2026SUBSTITUTED BY A10310B

&nbspA10310 AMEND=B Paulin

&nbsp02/20/2026referred to health

&nbsp04/16/2026amend and recommit to health

&nbsp04/16/2026print number 10310a

&nbsp04/21/2026reported referred to ways and means

&nbsp04/29/2026amend and recommit to ways and means

&nbsp04/29/2026print number 10310b

&nbsp06/02/2026reported referred to rules

&nbsp06/02/2026reported 

&nbsp06/02/2026rules report cal.360

&nbsp06/02/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.360

&nbsp06/02/2026passed assembly

&nbsp06/02/2026delivered to senate

&nbsp06/02/2026REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp06/03/2026SUBSTITUTED FOR S9620A

&nbsp06/03/20263RD READING CAL.1661

&nbsp06/03/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/03/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9620--A

 IN SENATE

 March 30, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- commit-
 tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
 mitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring residen-
 tial health care facilities to maintain hospice agreements to ensure
 access to hospice services for eligible residents

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

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2 2808-g to read as follows:
 3 § 2808-g. Residential health care facility hospice agreements. 1.
 4 Each residential health care facility shall enter into and maintain one
 5 or more written agreements with hospice programs licensed pursuant to
 6 article forty of this chapter to ensure access to hospice services for
 7 residents who are eligible for and elect the hospice benefit.
 8 2. Such agreements shall provide for coordination of care between the
 9 residential health care facility and the hospice program and shall, at a
 10 minimum, address:
 11 (a) timely hospice evaluation and referral;
 12 (b) roles and responsibilities of facility staff and hospice person-
 13 nel;
 14 (c) interdisciplinary care planning and symptom management;
 15 (d) medication management and clinical oversight;
 16 (e) after-hours communication and emergency response; and
 17 (f) documentation and information sharing, consistent with applicable
 18 law.
 19 3. The department shall provide guidance and technical assistance to
 20 residential health care facilities and hospice programs to support
 21 implementation of this section, including model contract provisions and
 22 best practice recommendations.
 23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundredth day after it
 24 shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
 25 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 26 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 27 completed on or before such effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14724-05-6

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