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A 7595

Directs the department of health to establish a right to preventative maintenance of wheelchairs program

2025 Regular Session Introduced by Gabriella Romero

Directs the Department of Health to create a program guaranteeing wheelchair preventative maintenance, ensuring routine service for users and reducing breakdowns and injuries.

REFERRED TO HEALTH
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Bill Summary · A 7595

Summary: Bill A 7595 – Directs the Department of Health to Establish a Right to Preventative Maintenance of Wheelchairs Program

Overview

Bill A 7595 seeks to require the Department of Health (DOH) to establish a program that guarantees a right to preventative maintenance for wheelchairs. The measure aims to promote mobility, safety, and health outcomes for wheelchair users by ensuring access to routine maintenance services.

Purpose and Intent

  • Establish a formal program under DOH to provide or guarantee preventative maintenance services for wheelchairs.
  • Recognize preventative maintenance as a health-supportive service that can reduce equipment failure, prevent injuries, and support ongoing independence for wheelchair users.

Key Provisions (as available)

  • Directs DOH to create a program guaranteeing a right to preventative maintenance for wheelchairs.
  • The specific scope (types of maintenance, service intervals, covered components), eligibility criteria, funding sources, and delivery mechanisms are not detailed in the information provided and would be defined in the enacted bill text.
  • Likely considerations in the bill’s text would include program administration, oversight, provider requirements, and reporting requirements, but these are not specified here.

Note: The full bill text would provide the precise definitions, eligibility, funding, scope of services (e.g., batteries, tires, repairs, inspections), and implementation timeline.

Affected Parties

  • Primary beneficiaries: wheelchair users who would gain access to preventative maintenance services.
  • Caregivers and family members who assist wheelchair users.
  • Healthcare providers, durable medical equipment suppliers, and facilities that service wheelchairs.
  • State or territorial DOH and related health agencies responsible for program administration.

Procedural and Timeline Aspects

  • Introduced: April 1, 2025.
  • Status: Referred to Health (Committee level), indicating the bill has not progressed to floor debate yet.
  • Legislative actions show two entries on 2025-04-01: both “REFERRED TO HEALTH,” suggesting initial committee assignment and possible duplicate recording.

Related Legislation

  • Companion bill: S 6210 (listed as a companion in multiple entries). This indicates parallel or identical consideration in another chamber, which commonly occurs for cross-chamber alignment.

Sponsor

  • Gabriella Romero (primary sponsor)

Next Steps for Interested Readers

  • Review the full text of A 7595 to understand the precise definitions, eligibility, funding, and implementation timeline.
  • Monitor committee hearings in the Health committee for testimony, amendments, and potential passage.
  • Compare with S 6210 to anticipate alignment or differences between the house and senate companion bills.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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