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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 2162 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 826 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2021 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 2162 | |
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| 9 | 9 | ||
| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on HUMAN SERVICES | |
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| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | SEN. LESSER, 9th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT CREATING A CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST LICENSED | |
| 19 | 19 | NURSING HOME FACILITIES FOR NEGLIGENCE RELATED TO | |
| 20 | 20 | COVID-19. | |
| 21 | 21 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 22 | 22 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 24 | 24 | That the general statutes be amended to establish a new cause of 1 | |
| 25 | 25 | action against licensed nursing home facilities, as defined in section 19a-2 | |
| 26 | 26 | 490 of the general statutes, for negligence related to the COVID-19 3 | |
| 27 | 27 | pandemic for failure to meet the standard of care based on guidance 4 | |
| 28 | 28 | issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the 5 | |
| 29 | 29 | Department of Public Health. 6 | |
| 30 | 30 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 31 | 31 | To establish a new cause of action against licensed nursing home | |
| 32 | 32 | facilities for negligence related to the COVID-19 pandemic. |