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A04839 Summary:

BILL NOA04839 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSantabarbara

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COSPNSRShimsky, Colton, Manktelow, DeStefano

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §13.07, Ment Hyg L

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Requires OPWDD to purchase and provide essential personal protection equipment to all direct support professionals, care recipients and group home providers in the event of a declaration of a state emergency that relates to public health.

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BILL NOA04839 

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02/06/2025referred to people with disabilities

01/07/2026referred to people with disabilities

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4839

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 6, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on People with Disabilities

 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring the
 office for people with developmental disabilities to purchase and
 provide essential personal protection equipment to all direct support
 professionals, care recipients and group home providers in the event
 of a declaration of a state emergency that relates to public health

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

 1 Section 1. Section 13.07 of the mental hygiene law is amended by
 2 adding a new subdivision (f) to read as follows:
 3 (f) (1) In the event of a state declaration of disaster emergency
 4 pursuant to section twenty-eight of the executive law which relates to
 5 public health, the office shall:
 6 (i) purchase and provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to all
 7 direct support professionals, care recipients and group home providers
 8 in the state, including centers operated by the office;
 9 (ii) consider clinical best practices for PPE as it relates to current
 10 or state projected public health considerations that may result in an
 11 increased need for PPE;
 12 (iii) provide PPE pursuant to this section within thirty days of such
 13 state declaration to accommodate an immediate need for increased
 14 supplies of PPE;
 15 (iv) purchase and distribute PPE to protect direct support profes-
 16 sionals, care recipients and group home facility personnel, consistent
 17 with guidance from the federal centers for disease control and
 18 prevention, for at least sixty days at a daily rate of usage equal to
 19 the average daily rate that PPE was used between April nineteenth, two
 20 thousand twenty and April twenty-seventh, two thousand twenty; and
 21 (v) replace and replenish PPE as needed to prevent extended use which
 22 would result in damaged PPE.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01005-01-5

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 1 (2) For purposes of this subdivision, "damaged PPE" shall mean:
 2 (i) a mask that has become soiled or difficult to breathe through as a
 3 result of overuse;
 4 (ii) a gown that has become visibly soiled; or
 5 (iii) eye protection such as goggles or face shields that have become
 6 visibly soiled.
 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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