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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S10164 Summary: BILL NO S10164A &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A11139-A

&nbsp SPONSOR CLEARE &nbsp COSPNSR &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Add §2805-aa, Pub Health L &nbsp 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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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

10164--A

IN SENATE

May 1, 2026 ___________

Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to consent to include patient information in a general hospital facility directory

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 2805-aa to read as follows: 3 § 2805-aa. General hospital facility directories. 1. No general hospi- 4 tal shall include any patient in a facility directory without first 5 obtaining verbal and written informed consent from the patient or the 6 patient's legal representative. In order for such consent to be valid, 7 the general hospital shall inform the patient that the information 8 contained within the facility directory may be shared with others, and 9 the patient shall receive a copy of the general hospital's policy on the 10 facility directory. 11 2. If the opportunity to consent to inclusion in the facility directo- 12 ry cannot practicably be provided because of the patient's incapacity, 13 provided the patient's legal representative is not practicably avail- 14 able, or an emergency circumstance, a general hospital may include the 15 patient in the facility directory and may disclose such patient's iden- 16 tifying information, if such disclosure: 17 (a) is consistent with a prior expressed preference of the individual, 18 if any, that is known to the general hospital; and 19 (b) is in the individual's best interest, as determined by general 20 hospital staff, in the exercise of professional judgment. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect eighteen months after it shall have 22 become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15606-05-6

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