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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1029
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 4766
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)
AN ACT CONCERNING CA USES OF ACTION AGAIN ST LICENSED
NURSING HOME FACILIT IES FOR FAILURE TO MEET STAN DARDS
OF CARE RELATED TO C OVID-19.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) As used in this section, 1
"COVID-19" means the respiratory disease designated by the World 2
Health Organization on February 11, 2020, as coronavirus 2019, and any 3
related mutation thereof recognized by the World Health Organization 4
as a communicable respiratory disease. 5
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, any person 6
may bring a civil action in the superior court for the judicial district 7
where such person resides for any loss, damage, injury or death arising 8
from exposure to or transmission of COVID-19 at a nursing home, as 9
defined in section 19a-490 of the general statutes, due to the failure of 10
such nursing home to comply with, or negligence of such nursing home 11
in complying with, any standard of care specified in guidance issued by 12
the Department of Public Health or the National Centers for Disease 13
Control and Prevention applicable to such nursing home at the relevant 14 Raised Bill No. 1029
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time, to recover damages and other appropriate relief. 15
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To allow a person to bring a civil action against a licensed nursing home
facility for injuries resulting from the failure to comply with standards
of care related to COVID-19.
[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.]