S9548 • 2025

Relates to the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient and information required to be submitted by complainants in offenses against a health care worker

Healthcare Labor

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Christopher Ryan
Last action: 2026-05-29
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient and information required to be submitted by complainants in offenses against a health care worker

Relates to the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient and information required to be submitted by complainants in offenses against a health care worker Limits the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient to their first name and first initial of their last name; requires complainants to only submit the address of the health care facility at which they were providing services at the time of the offense in cases involving an alleged offense against a hospital worker health care practitioner.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient and information required to be submitted by complainants in offenses against a health care worker Limits the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient to their first name and first initial of their last name; requires complainants to only submit the address of the health care facility at which they were providing services at the time of the offense in cases involving an alleged offense against a hospital worker health care practitioner.

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Bill History

2026-05-29 Senate
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH
2026-05-29 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 9548A
2026-03-24 Senate
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 and information required to be submitted by complainants in offenses against a health care worker
Limits the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient to their first name and first initial of their last name; requires complainants to only submit the address of the health care facility at which they were providing services at the time of the offense in cases involving an alleged offense against a hospital worker health care practitioner.

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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                                          9548

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     March 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- 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 the identification
          of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct  observation
          of  a patient; and to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to
          requiring complainants to only  submit  their  employer's  address  in
          cases involving an alleged offense against a hospital worker

          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 MAY 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. Subdivision 1 of section 100.15 of the criminal procedure law is
    14  amended to read as follows:
    15    1.  An information, a misdemeanor complaint  and  a  felony  complaint
    16  must  each  specify the name of the court with which it is filed and the
    17  title of the action, and must be subscribed and  verified  by  a  person
    18  known  as  the "complainant."   The complainant may be any person having
    19  knowledge, whether personal or  upon  information  and  belief,  of  the
    20  commission  of  the  offense or offenses charged.   Each instrument must
    21  contain an accusatory part  and  a  factual  part.    The  complainant's
    22  verification  of  the  instrument is deemed to apply only to the factual
    23  part thereof  and  not  to  the  accusatory  part.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY
    24  PROVISION  OF  LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY, IN THE CASE OF AN ALLEGED OFFENSE
    25  AGAINST ANY PERSON WHO PROVIDES FACE-TO-FACE CARE TO OR DIRECT  OBSERVA-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14064-06-6
        S. 9548                             2

     1  TION  OF  A  PATIENT  IN  A  HOSPITAL,  AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF
     2  SECTION TWO THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH  LAW,  THE
     3  COMPLAINANT  MAY  SUBMIT  THE ADDRESS OF SUCH HOSPITAL IN THE INSTRUMENT
     4  AND SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO INCLUDE THEIR PERSONAL ADDRESS OR ANY OTHER
     5  IDENTIFYING INFORMATION.
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     7  it shall have become a law.