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Assembly Bill A8236

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires general hospitals and nursing homes to offer free notarial services to patients

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2023-A8236 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7943
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2805-aa, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A6235, S3809

2023-A8236 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires general hospitals and nursing homes to offer free notarial services to patients; requires an employee of such general hospital or nursing home who is a notary public to be present from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on business days.

2023-A8236 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8236
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 6, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. McMAHON, SEAWRIGHT, L. ROSENTHAL, STIRPE, DICK-
   ENS, LAVINE, McDONOUGH, SHIMSKY, DeSTEFANO -- read once  and  referred
   to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring general
   hospitals and  nursing  homes  to  offer  free  notarial  services  to
   patients

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 2805-aa to read as follows:
   §  2805-AA. HOSPITAL AND NURSING HOME NOTARIAL SERVICES. EVERY GENERAL
 HOSPITAL AND NURSING HOME SHALL HAVE AN  EMPLOYEE  PRESENT,  FROM  EIGHT
 O'CLOCK  A.M.  TO  SIX  O'CLOCK  P.M.  EACH  BUSINESS  DAY, WHO HAS BEEN
 APPOINTED AS A NOTARY PUBLIC PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED  THIRTY  OF
 THE  EXECUTIVE  LAW.  SUCH  EMPLOYEE  SHALL  OFFER  NOTARIAL SERVICES TO
 PATIENTS OF SUCH GENERAL HOSPITAL OR NURSING HOME AT NO CHARGE  TO  SUCH
 PATIENTS. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO PREVENT A GENER-
 AL  HOSPITAL  OR  NURSING  HOME  FROM OFFERING FREE NOTARIAL SERVICES TO
 PATIENTS OUTSIDE THE HOURS OF EIGHT O'CLOCK A.M. TO SIX O'CLOCK P.M., OR
 ON NON-BUSINESS DAYS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11916-02-3

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