File #: Int 1020-2023    Version: * Name: Establishing a website to request free COVID-19 rapid antigen tests and personal protective equipment.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 4/27/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing a website to request free COVID-19 rapid antigen tests and personal protective equipment
Sponsors: Mercedes Narcisse, Farah N. Louis, Shahana K. Hanif, Crystal Hudson, Linda Lee, Kevin C. Riley, Justin L. Brannan, Lynn C. Schulman, Julie Won, Shekar Krishnan, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Tiffany Cabán, Lincoln Restler, Christopher Marte, Sandy Nurse, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Kamillah Hanks, Oswald Feliz
Council Member Sponsors: 19
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to create a website that allows users to order COVID-19 rapid tests, masks, and gloves. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene would then mail the requested COVID-19 supplies free of charge.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1020, 2. Int. No. 1020, 3. April 27, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-27-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 27, 2023
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2023*Mercedes Narcisse City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/27/2023*Mercedes Narcisse City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/27/2023*Mercedes Narcisse City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1020

 

By Council Members Narcisse, Louis, Hanif, Hudson, Lee, Riley, Brannan, Schulman, Won, Krishnan, De La Rosa, Cabán, Restler, Marte, Nurse, Gutiérrez, Sanchez, Hanks and Feliz

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing a website to request free COVID-19 rapid antigen tests and personal protective equipment

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-199.20 to read as follows:

§ 17-199.20 COVID-19 supplies available by mail. a. The department shall create a website that allows users to request COVID-19 rapid antigen tests and personal protective equipment, including masks and gloves.

b. Subject to limitations on quantity established by the department, the department shall mail the requested rapid antigen tests and personal protective equipment to addresses in the city free of charge.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

 

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LS # 12392

04/21/2023