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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5894
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 2378
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. DEMICCO, 21st Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING ACCESSIBILITY OF MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC
EQUIPMENT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to require the Commissioner 1
of Public Health to adopt regulations requiring each health care facility 2
to meet or exceed the technical standards for accessibility developed 3
by the federal Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance 4
Board in accordance with Section 4203 of the Patient Protection and 5
Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148, as amended from time to time, for 6
medical diagnostic equipment. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To require medical diagnostic equipment purchased by health care
facilities to meet technical standards for accessibility by persons with
disabilities.