Requires general hospitals and nursing homes to offer free notarial services to patients; requires an employee of such general hospital or nursing home who is a notary public to be present from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on business days.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6235
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. McMAHON, SEAWRIGHT, ROSENTHAL, STIRPE, LAVINE,
McDONOUGH, SHIMSKY, DeSTEFANO, TAYLOR, GLICK, REILLY -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring general
hospitals and nursing homes to offer free notarial services to
patients
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 2805-aa to read as follows:
3 § 2805-aa. Hospital and nursing home notarial services. Every general
4 hospital and nursing home shall have an employee present, from eight
5 o'clock a.m. to six o'clock p.m. each business day, who has been
6 appointed as a notary public pursuant to section one hundred thirty of
7 the executive law. Such employee shall offer notarial services to
8 patients of such general hospital or nursing home at no charge to such
9 patients. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a gener-
10 al hospital or nursing home from offering free notarial services to
11 patients outside the hours of eight o'clock a.m. to six o'clock p.m., or
12 on non-business days.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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