S09897 Summary:
| BILL NO | S09897 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A06235 |
| SPONSOR | ZELLNER |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add §2805-aa, Pub Health L | |
| 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. | |
S09897 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9897 IN SENATE April 13, 2026 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ZELLNER -- 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 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. LBD02946-01-5