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NY S07575
Bill
Status
4/22/2025
Primary Sponsor
Cordell Cleare
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AI Summary
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Requires healthcare facilities to maintain at least 50% of their personal protective equipment (PPE) inventory as reusable textiles provided by hygienically clean laundry service providers
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Applies to 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 PPE as any protective textile available in reusable format consistent with CDC guidance, with "operating threshold" meaning constantly rotating stock processed through certified laundry 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 if purchasing at market rates
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Authorizes fines for non-compliance, but requires a 30-day grace period before any penalties can be assessed; 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
PRINT NUMBER 7575A
2/18/2026