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NY A06469
Bill
Status
3/5/2025
Primary Sponsor
Amanda Septimo
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AI Summary
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Requires all healthcare facilities to maintain at least 50% of their healthcare protective textiles (HPT) as reusable items provided by hygienically clean laundry services
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Covers hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, outpatient care centers, long-term care facilities, physical therapy centers, rehabilitation facilities, dialysis facilities, hospice, physician offices, and laboratories
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Defines healthcare protective textiles as barrier garments, incontinence pads, and barrier curtains that rotate through use, laundering at certified facilities, and return to healthcare facilities
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Allows the Department of Health to grant extensions or reprieves when facilities demonstrate supply chain issues beyond their control that would result in price gouging
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Authorizes fines for non-compliance, but requires a 30-day grace period before any penalty can be imposed; takes effect one year after becoming law
Legislative Description
Requires healthcare facilities to maintain a fifty percent operating threshold of certain reusable healthcare protective textiles in their inventory unless a reprieve is provided for supply chain issues; provides a fine may be assessed for failure to comply, as determined by the commissioner.
Last Action
enacting clause stricken
3/10/2026