New York State Register

Subject: Special Needs Assisted Living Residence (SNALR) Voucher Program. Purpose: To establish the guidelines surrounding the SNALR Voucher Program for Persons with Dementia.

Subject: Ionizing Radiation. Purpose: Compatibility with Federal standards and modernization to reflect current technology.

Subject: Community Paramedicine Programs. Purpose: To establish rules and regulations relative to the practice of com- munity paramedicine in New York State.

Subject: Communicable Disease Reporting, Definitions and Specimen Collection. Purpose: To update and clarify requirements for communicable disease reporting, definitions, and specimen collection.

Subject: Licensure and Practice of Nursing Home Administration. Purpose: Changes to a definition and standards of approval for the Licensure and Practice of Nursing Home Administration.

Subject: Organ Donation Conforming Changes. Purpose: To add close friend to list of those that may consent to an anatomical gift. Patients may be placed on multiple transplant lists.

Subject: Updating Medicaid provider Electronic Orders and Forms. Purpose: To explicitly authorize provider use of electronic orders and forms.

Subject: Streamlining Medicaid Provider Recordkeeping Requirements. Purpose: To eliminate unnecessary requirements and simplify and clarify recordkeeping requirements for health care providers.

Subject: Nurse Aide Training Program. Purpose: To change the number of training hours for the Nurse Aide Train- ing Program.

Subject: Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) Physician Reporting Requirements. Purpose: To establish reporting requirements for physicians who use MAID so that the department can determine utilization and compliance.

Subject: Lead Poisoning Prevention Control. Purpose: Outlines the targeted State rental registry and proactive lead safety inspections for rental units in dwellings with two or more units.

Subject: Radiology Services. Purpose: To define portable radiology as a type of mobile radiology.

Subject: Cybersecurity Requirements for Public Water Systems. Purpose: To establish enforceable cybersecurity requirements to protect public water systems that serve the people of New York.

Subject: Standards for Tissue Banks and Nontransplant Anatomic Banks, and conforming changes. Purpose: Update to reflect current standards, practices and Federal requirements; include additional protections for donors and recipients.

Subject: Chemical Analyses of Blood, Urine, Breath or Saliva for Alcoholic Content. Purpose: To update, clarify, and simplify certain requirements.

Subject: Enteral Nutrition Defined Benefit Changes. Purpose: To increase the enteral nutrition oral supplementation defined benefit calorie limit.

Subject: Personal Care Services (PCS) and Consumer Directed Personal Care Services (CDPCS). Purpose: Allows Licensed Practical Nurses in addition to Registered Nurses to perform initial assessments for PCS and CDPCS in NYS Medicaid.

Subject: Clinical Laboratories. Purpose: To provide clarification to requirements and standards and ad- dress the Department’s need to update outdated provisions.

Subject: Certificates of Qualification for Clinical Laboratory Directors. Purpose: To create two pathways for certificate of qualification in order to comply with federal rules for clinical laboratory directors.

Subject: Licensure and Practice of Nursing Home Administration. Purpose: Changes to a definition and standards of approval for the Licensure and Practice of Nursing Home Administration.

Subject: Cybersecurity Requirements for Public Water Systems. Purpose: To establish enforceable cybersecurity requirements to protect public water systems that serve the people of New York.

Subject: Lead Poisoning Prevention Control. Purpose: Outlines the targeted State rental registry and proactive lead safety inspections for rental units in dwellings with two or more units.

Subject: Children’s Camps. Purpose: To protect the health and safety of children who attend chil- dren’s overnight, summer day and traveling summer day camps.

Subject: Safety of Infant Formula Distributed under the NYS Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program. Purpose: To provide the department with the authority to disqualify food suppliers that do not comply with safety requirements.

Subject: Living Donor Support Program (LDSP). Purpose: To establish expenses eligible for reimbursement under the NYS LDSP and establish rules for Program implementation.

Subject: Expedited Partner Therapy for Sexually Transmitted Infections. Purpose: To permit expedited treatment for STIs for which the U.S. CDC recommends the use of expedited therapy.

Subject: Emergency Medical Services Equipment Requirements for Certi- fied Ambulance and Emergency Ambulance Service Vehicles. Purpose: To update requirements to meet current industry standards that address patient and provider safety and manufacturing guidelines.

Subject: Blood Banks. Purpose: To allow ambulances to store and distribute blood and initiate and administer blood transfusions.

Subject: Ionizing Radiation. Purpose: Compatibility with federal standards and modernization to reflect current technology.

Subject: 12-Week Rule for Foreign Medical School Graduates and Limited Permit Allowances. Purpose: To allow more providers to meet the “12-week” exception to graduate medical education that occurs outside of the U.S.

Subject: Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program. Purpose: To require the State to contract with a statewide fiscal intermedi- ary in the consumer directed personal assistance program.

Subject: Onsite Wastewater Treatment System Waiver Requirements. Purpose: Clarify availability of waivers from statewide requirements regarding installation and operation of wastewater treatment systems.

Subject: Enteral Nutrition Defined Benefit Changes. Purpose: To increase the enteral nutrition oral supplementation defined benefit calorie limit.

Subject: Thermal Energy Network Pilot Proposal Customer Protection Plan filings provided by New York State Electric & Gas Corporation. Purpose: Consider the Thermal Energy Network Customer Protection Plan filing.

Subject: The Chelsea UTEN Pilot Proposal filings provided by Con Edison. Purpose: To consider whether it is in the public interest to authorize Con Edison to proceed with the Chelsea Pilot Project.

Subject: The Syracuse UTEN Pilot Proposal filings provided by National Grid. Purpose: To consider whether it is in the public interest to authorize National Grid to proceed with the Syracuse Pilot Project.

Subject: Petition to submeter electricity. Purpose: To ensure adequate submetering equipment, consumer protec- tions and energy efficiency protections are in place.

Subject: The Brooklyn UTEN Pilot Proposal filings provided by KEDNY. Purpose: To consider whether it is in the public interest to authorize KEDNY to proceed with the Brooklyn Pilot Project.

Subject: The Mount Vernon UTEN Pilot Proposal filings provided by Con Edison. Purpose: To consider whether it is in the public interest to authorize Con Edison to proceed with the Mount Vernon Pilot Project.

Subject: Clean Energy Standard administration. Purpose: To authorize the funding necessary for continued implementa- tion of the Clean Energy Standard in 2026.

Subject: The Haverstraw UTEN Pilot Proposal filings provided by O&R. Purpose: To consider whether it is in the public interest to authorize O&R to proceed with the Haverstraw Pilot Project.

Subject: The Rockefeller Center UTEN Pilot Proposal filings provided by Con Edison. Purpose: To consider whether it is in the public interest to authorize Con Edison to proceed with the Rockefeller Center Pilot Project.

Subject: Approval of Medical Facility Construction. Purpose: To update and streamline the Certificate of Need review process for health facility construction projects.

Subject: Special Needs Assisted Living Residence (SNALR) Voucher Program. Purpose: To establish the guidelines surrounding the SNALR Voucher Program for Persons with Dementia.

Subject: Cybersecurity Requirements for Public Water Systems. Purpose: To establish enforceable cybersecurity requirements to protect public water systems that serve the people of New York.

Subject: General Hospital Medical Staff Recertification. Purpose: Changes the period general hospitals must periodically review the credentials of medical staff from biannually to triennially.

Subject: Emergency Medical Services Equipment Requirements for Certi- fied Ambulance and Emergency Ambulance Service Vehicles. Purpose: To update requirements to meet current industry standards that address patient and provider safety and manufacturing guidelines.