Directs the office of the state long-term care ombudsman to advertise and promote the long-term care ombudsman program (Part A); directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the state long-term care ombudsman and the commissioners of the departments responsible for the license or certification of long-term care facilities, to establish policies and procedures for reporting, by staff and volunteers of the long-term care ombudsman program, issues concerning the health, safety and welfare of residents at long-term care facilities (Part B); includes access to state long-term care ombudsman program staff and volunteers within the pandemic emergency plan prepared by residential health care facilities (Part C).
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Directs the commissioner of health to establish and implement an infection inspection audit and checklist on nursing homes.
Delineates instances where no landlord-tenant relationships exist in cooperative apartments.
Requires a health equity assessment to be filed with an application for construction, or substantial reduction of, a hospital or health related service; includes a demonstration of whether and how a project will improve or affect access to hospital services and health care with particular reference to members of medically underserved groups in the applicant's service area.
Enacts the "reimagining long-term care task force act" to create a task force to study the state of long-term care services in this state.
Establishes a private student loan refinance task force to study and report on ways lending institutions offering private student loans to graduates of institutions of higher education can be encouraged to establish student loan refinancing programs.
Requires the office of information technology services to advise all state agencies in the implementation of language translation technology.
Establishes the anti-discrimination in housing fund and allocates moneys from fines thereto.
Requires real estate brokers and salespersons to receive implicit bias training as part of their license renewal process.
Requires third-party delivery services to have a valid agreement with a merchant before they advertise, promote, or sell the merchant's products on their platform, and prohibits the inclusion of an indemnity clause in such agreements.