PUBLISHED 7:58 PM ET Feb. 22, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:58 PM EST Feb. 22, 2021
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The New York State Senate passed ten nursing home reform bills on Monday, but that is as far as some of these bills might go.
Speaker Carl Heastie said that the Assembly is likely to pass their own set of reform bills, which means both houses will need to come to an agreement before any bill can be signed into law.
However, the focus over recent days has shifted further away from reform and more on limiting the governor’s emergency powers after his top aide, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, admitted the state intentionally withheld the number of COVID-related nursing home deaths.