S04348 Summary:
| BILL NO | S04348 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | COMRIE |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add §2808-g, Pub Health L | |
| Requires hospitals to provide medical forms in Punjabi. | |
S04348 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4348 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi- tals to provide forms in Punjabi 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 2808-g to read as follows: 3 § 2808-g. Forms printed in Punjabi. Every hospital shall, at a 4 patient's request, provide any medical form or printed information which 5 is given to a patient or required to be signed by such patient trans- 6 lated into Punjabi. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 8 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05630-01-5