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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 7232
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 4202
Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES
Introduced by:
(HS)
AN ACT ENHANCING THE SAFETY OF NURSING HOME RESIDEN TS
WITH VIDEO CAMERAS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2019) Each nursing home, as 1
defined in section 19a-490 of the general statutes, shall, at the request 2
of a resident or the authorized representative of a resident, install a 3
video camera in such resident's room, provided: (1) The camera is 4
installed in a location so that it only records the resident's living 5
quarters, (2) the resident or such resident's authorized representative 6
signs any required permissions to ensure the video camera recording 7
complies with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and 8
Accountability Act of 1996, as amended from time to time, (3) the 9
resident signs a waiver of liability holding the nursing home harmless 10
for any unlawful intrusion by a person not employed by the nursing 11
home on the nursing home's Internet server that may compromise the 12
privacy of any such video camera recording, and (4) the resident or 13
such resident's authorized representative (A) monitors the video 14
camera recordings, either in person or remotely, (B) reports to nursing 15
home staff any recording that raises concerns about the resident's 16 Raised Bill No. 7232
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safety, and (C) maintains for at least one year an unedited copy of the 17
video camera recording for use by nursing home staff or law 18
enforcement to investigate any safety concerns that arise as a result of 19
the recording. 20
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To enhance the safety of nursing home residents by requiring nursing
homes to install video cameras that may be remotely monitored by a
resident's family.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]