A11139 • 2025

Requires hospitals to obtain verbal and written informed consent from a patient or representative before including such patient information in a general hospital facility directory

Healthcare

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Last action: 2026-05-19
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires hospitals to obtain verbal and written informed consent from a patient or representative before including such patient information in a general hospital facility directory

Requires hospitals to obtain verbal and written informed consent from a patient or representative before including such patient information in a general hospital facility directory Requires hospitals to obtain verbal and written informed consent from a patient or representative before including such patient's information in a general hospital facility directory.

What This Bill Does

Requires hospitals to obtain verbal and written informed consent from a patient or representative before including such patient information in a general hospital facility directory Requires hospitals to obtain verbal and written informed consent from a patient or representative before including such patient's information in a general hospital facility directory.

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Bill History

2026-05-19 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-05-15 Assembly
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH
2026-05-15 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 11139A
2026-04-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Requires hospitals to obtain verbal and written informed consent from a patient or representative before including such patient information in a general hospital facility directory
Requires hospitals to obtain verbal and written informed consent from a patient or representative before including such patient's information in a general hospital facility directory.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          11139

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to a hospital patient
          directory

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2805 of the public health law,  as
     2  added by chapter 795 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  No hospital shall be operated unless it shall: (a) possess a valid
     4  operating certificate issued pursuant to this article, which certificate
     5  may specify the kind or kinds  of  hospital  services  the  facility  is
     6  authorized  to  provide;  (b) establish and maintain a uniform system of
     7  cost analysis approved by the  commissioner;  [and]  (c)  establish  and
     8  maintain a uniform system of reports and audits meeting the requirements
     9  of  the  commissioner; AND (D) HAVE A DIRECTORY OF PATIENTS' INFORMATION
    10  THAT IS ESTABLISHED IN A MANNER WHICH THE PATIENT OR THE PATIENT'S LEGAL
    11  REPRESENTATIVE SHALL OPT IN AFTER INFORMED CONSENT.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect eighteen months after  it  shall  have
    13  become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15606-01-6