S10164 Summary:
| BILL NO | S10164 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A11139 |
| SPONSOR | CLEARE |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §2805, Pub Health L | |
| Requires hospitals maintain a directory of patient information with opt in provisions. | |
S10164 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10164 IN SENATE May 1, 2026 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 a hospital patient directory The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2805 of the public health law, as 2 added by chapter 795 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows: 3 1. No hospital shall be operated unless it shall: (a) possess a valid 4 operating certificate issued pursuant to this article, which certificate 5 may specify the kind or kinds of hospital services the facility is 6 authorized to provide; (b) establish and maintain a uniform system of 7 cost analysis approved by the commissioner; [and] (c) establish and 8 maintain a uniform system of reports and audits meeting the requirements 9 of the commissioner; and (d) have a directory of patients' information 10 that is established in a manner which the patient or the patient's legal 11 representative shall opt in after informed consent. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect eighteen months after it shall have 13 become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15606-01-6