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General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5371  
January Session, 2025  
LCO No. 2047 
 
 
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH  
 
 
Introduced by:  
REP. DEMICCO, 21st Dist. 
 
 
 
AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBILITY FOR 
PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
 
That section 19a-490dd of the general statutes be amended to require 1 
each health care facility and practice location to (1) take and document 2 
an inventory of all medical diagnostic equipment that meets the 3 
standards for accessibility and all medical diagnostic equipment that 4 
does not meet such standards, including, but not limited to, an action 5 
plan for addressing gaps in such inventory, and (2) submit such 6 
inventory to the Commissioner of Public Health not later than July 1, 7 
2025. 8 
Statement of Purpose:   
To require that the inventories and action plans mandated by section 
19a-490dd of the general statutes are submitted to the Commissioner of 
Public Health in a timely fashion.