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S02191 Summary:

BILL NOS02191
 
SAME ASSAME AS A05847
 
SPONSORKAVANAGH
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add 2803-z, Pub Health L
 
Relates to antimicrobial resistance prevention and education; requires every general hospital and nursing home to establish and implement an antimicrobial stewardship program and establish and implement training regarding antimicrobial resistance and infection prevention and control.
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S02191 Actions:

BILL NOS02191
 
01/20/2021REFERRED TO HEALTH
02/09/20211ST REPORT CAL.353
02/10/20212ND REPORT CAL.
02/22/2021ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
03/10/2021SUBSTITUTED BY A5847
 A05847 AMEND= Woerner
 02/26/2021referred to health
 03/01/2021reported referred to rules
 03/01/2021reported
 03/02/2021rules report cal.31
 03/02/2021ordered to third reading rules cal.31
 03/04/2021passed assembly
 03/04/2021delivered to senate
 03/04/2021REFERRED TO HEALTH
 03/10/2021SUBSTITUTED FOR S2191
 03/10/20213RD READING CAL.353
 03/10/2021PASSED SENATE
 03/10/2021RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
 12/10/2021delivered to governor
 12/22/2021signed chap.737
 12/22/2021approval memo.104
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S02191 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2191
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 20, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- 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  antimicrobial
          resistance prevention and education
 
          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  2803-z to read as follows:
     3    § 2803-z. Antimicrobial resistance prevention and education. 1.  Every
     4  general hospital and nursing home shall establish and implement an anti-
     5  microbial stewardship program that meets or exceeds federal Medicare and
     6  Medicaid  conditions  of  participation  for  antimicrobial  stewardship
     7  programs in health care facilities.  Additionally,  such  program  shall
     8  incorporate  an  ongoing  process  to measure the impact of the program,
     9  including review, at least annually, of antimicrobial  utilization  data
    10  with development of response plans for high or increasing utilization.
    11    2.  Every general hospital and nursing home shall establish and imple-
    12  ment  training  regarding   antimicrobial   resistance   and   infection
    13  prevention and control, or ensure that such training has taken place, in
    14  addition  to or within existing infection control training programs, for
    15  all individuals licensed or certified pursuant to  title  eight  of  the
    16  education  law  and  who are required to complete coursework or training
    17  regarding infection control pursuant to section two hundred  thirty-nine
    18  of  this  chapter  or section sixty-five hundred five-b of the education
    19  law.
    20    3. The commissioner shall make such rules and regulations  as  may  be
    21  necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this section.
    22    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
    24  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    25  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
    26  completed on or before such effective date.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06471-01-1
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