---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to requiring infection updates and infection control planning in residential health care facilities"
description: "Requires residential health care facilities to update residents, authorized family members, and guardians of residents of the presence of an infection and to have in their pandemic emergency plan a plan or procedure for designating a separate cohort area."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "A 6052"
citation: "New York A 6052 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["LUNSFORD"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-05"
last_action: "2022-12-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fa8b9bb-fe66-41cf-b1e0-bb6557ed024b"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A6052"
source_hash: "c4eedc51d2b48b859bef6f1f5a3d907d82a18090551071a923d9191d9aa03cd6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York A 6052 (2021-2022) — Relates to requiring infection updates and infection control planning in residential health care facilities

Requires residential health care facilities to update residents, authorized family members, and guardians of residents of the presence of an infection and to have in their pandemic emergency plan a plan or procedure for designating a separate cohort area.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **A6052** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A6052&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **147–1** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote - Vote 2 — **145–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- LUNSFORD — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-03-05** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** REPORTED
- **2021-03-09** RULES REPORT CAL.39
- **2021-03-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.39
- **2021-03-09** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2021-03-09** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2021-03-09** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-05** DIED IN SENATE
- **2022-01-05** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2022-01-05** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.198
- **2022-03-23** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2022-03-23** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2022-03-23** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-18** SUBSTITUTED FOR S1785A
- **2022-05-18** 3RD READING CAL.984
- **2022-05-18** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2022-05-18** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2022-12-02** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2022-12-07** SIGNED CHAP.662 `executive-signature`
- **2022-12-07** APPROVAL MEMO.34

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9fa8b9bb-fe66-41cf-b1e0-bb6557ed024b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).