S03838 Summary:
| BILL NO | S03838 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A05316 |
| SPONSOR | HINCHEY |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §18, Pub Health L | |
| Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal and in a format that allows patients to save records to their own device. | |
S03838 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3838 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 the release of medical records in an electronic format The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 18 of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows: 3 (j) Subject to the provisions of subdivision three of this section, 4 upon the request of a qualified person, all medical records required to 5 be released pursuant to this section shall be made available to quali- 6 fied persons in an electronic format through a web portal and such 7 records shall be provided in a format that allows qualified persons to 8 save the records to their own device. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 10 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08155-01-5