Limits the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient to their employee identification number, first name and first initial of last name when full name identification may place the personal safety of such individual in jeopardy; requires complainants to only submit their employer's address in cases involving an alleged offense against a hospital worker.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9548
IN SENATE
March 24, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- 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 identification
of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation
of a patient; and to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to
requiring complainants to only submit their employer's address in
cases involving an alleged offense against a hospital worker
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (v) of paragraph (g) of subdivision 1 of
2 section 2803 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 618 of the
3 laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
4 (v) a right to be informed of the name, position, and functions of any
5 persons, including medical students and physicians exempt from New York
6 state licensure pursuant to section sixty-five hundred twenty-six of the
7 education law, who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of
8 the patient, except that a hospital may limit the identification of an
9 individual, including in medical records provided to the patient at any
10 time, to their employee identification number, first name and first
11 initial of last name when full name identification may place the
12 personal safety of such individual in jeopardy;
13 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 100.15 of the criminal procedure law is
14 amended to read as follows:
15 1. An information, a misdemeanor complaint and a felony complaint
16 must each specify the name of the court with which it is filed and the
17 title of the action, and must be subscribed and verified by a person
18 known as the "complainant." The complainant may be any person having
19 knowledge, whether personal or upon information and belief, of the
20 commission of the offense or offenses charged. Each instrument must
21 contain an accusatory part and a factual part. The complainant's
22 verification of the instrument is deemed to apply only to the factual
23 part thereof and not to the accusatory part. Notwithstanding any
24 provision of law to the contrary, in the case of an alleged offense
25 against any person who provides face-to-face care to or direct observa-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 tion of a patient in a hospital, as defined in subdivision one of
2 section two thousand eight hundred one of the public health law, the
3 complainant may submit the address of such hospital in the instrument
4 and shall not be required to include their personal address or any other
5 identifying information.
6 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
7 it shall have become a law.
