S10164 • 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: Cordell Cleare
Last action: 2026-05-19
Official status: In Senate 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 Senate
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH
2026-05-19 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 10164A
2026-05-01 Senate
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
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                                          10164

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       May 1, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 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