A11081 • 2025

Relates to the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient

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Sponsor: Josh Jensen
Last action: 2026-04-24
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient

Relates to the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient 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.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient 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.

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Bill History

2026-04-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Relates to the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient
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.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11081

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred 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

          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 SHALL 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. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15367-01-6