S02903 Summary:

BILL NOS02903
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORCOMRIE
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §2808-f, Pub Health L
 
Requires hospitals to provide medical forms in Punjabi.
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S02903 Actions:

BILL NOS02903
 
01/25/2023REFERRED TO HEALTH
01/03/2024REFERRED TO HEALTH
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S02903 Committee Votes:

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S02903 Floor Votes:

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S02903 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2903
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 25, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        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-f to read as follows:
     3    §  2808-f.  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.
                                                                   LBD04653-01-3
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