S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8467
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 16, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. P. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to notice to fire
departments when oxygen is in use at a residence
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 3656 of the public health law is renumbered section
3657 and a new section 3656 is added to read as follows:
§ 3656. NOTIFICATION TO FIRE DEPARTMENT BY PROVIDER OF MEDICAL OXYGEN
OR OXYGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM OF OXYGEN USE AT RESIDENCE. 1. A MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT SERVICE AGENCY THAT HAS SUPPLIED OXYGEN OR AN OXYGEN DELIVERY
SYSTEM TO A PATIENT ON AN ORDER FROM A LICENSED HEALTH CARE PROVIDER
SHALL NOTIFY THE APPROPRIATE FIRE DEPARTMENT OR COMPANY SERVING THE
MUNICIPALITY IN WHICH THE PATIENT RESIDES OF THE NAME, ADDRESS, AND AGE
OF THE PATIENT AND THE EXISTENCE OF THE OXYGEN OR OXYGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM
AT THE PATIENT'S RESIDENCE WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF DELIVERY OF SUCH
HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT.
2. (A) PRIOR TO NOTIFICATION, THE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICE AGENCY
SHALL INFORM THE PATIENT OF THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF THIS
SECTION AND OBTAIN WRITTEN INFORMED CONSENT FROM THE PATIENT FOR THE
NOTIFICATION. IF THE PATIENT IS LEGALLY INCAPACITATED, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
SERVICE AGENCY SHALL INFORM AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PATIENT
OF THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION AND OBTAIN THE WRITTEN
INFORMED CONSENT FROM THE AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE.
(B) WRITTEN INFORMED CONSENT SHALL CONSIST OF A STATEMENT, ON A FORM
OR IN A MANNER TO BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER, SIGNED BY THE
PATIENT OR BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PATIENT, WHICH
ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICE AGENCY HAS PROVIDED THE
PATIENT WITH INFORMATION REGARDING THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF THIS
SECTION AND THAT THE PATIENT OR AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PATIENT
CONSENTS TO THE NOTIFICATION.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(C) IF THE PATIENT OR THE PATIENT'S AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE DECLINES
TO GIVE INFORMED CONSENT FOR THE NOTIFICATION, THE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
SERVICE AGENCY IS REQUIRED TO INFORM THE PATIENT OR THE PATIENT'S
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE THAT THE PATIENT OR THE PATIENT'S AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE IS OBLIGATED TO NOTIFY THE APPROPRIATE FIRE DEPARTMENT OR
COMPANY OF THE PATIENT'S NAME, ADDRESS, AGE, AND OF THE EXISTENCE OF
OXYGEN OR AN OXYGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM AT THE PATIENT'S RESIDENCE. THE
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICE AGENCY ALSO SHALL INFORM THE PATIENT OR THE
PATIENT'S AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE THAT THE PATIENT OR SUCH REPRESEN-
TATIVE IS OBLIGATED TO NOTIFY THE APPROPRIATE FIRE DEPARTMENT OR COMPANY
WHENEVER THE SUPPLYING OF OXYGEN OR THE PROVIDING OF AN OXYGEN DELIVERY
SYSTEM TO THE PATIENT IS TERMINATED AND THE OXYGEN OR OXYGEN DELIVERY
SYSTEM IS REMOVED FROM THE PATIENT'S RESIDENCE.
3. IF THE PATIENT OR THE PATIENT'S AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE DECLINES
TO GIVE INFORMED CONSENT, THE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICE AGENCY IS EXEMPT
FROM THE REQUIREMENT TO MAKE THE NOTIFICATION AND IS PERMITTED TO SUPPLY
THE OXYGEN OR OXYGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM AS DIRECTED BY THE LICENSED HEALTH
CARE PROVIDER'S ORDER.
4. A COPY OF THE WRITTEN INFORMED CONSENT SHALL BE ATTACHED TO THE
ORDER FOR THE OXYGEN OR OXYGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM OR OTHERWISE INCLUDED IN
THE PATIENT'S RECORD OR, IF WRITTEN CONSENT IS NOT GIVEN, THE MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT SERVICE AGENCY SHALL NOTE ON THE ORDER OR IN THE PATIENT'S
RECORD THAT INFORMED CONSENT WAS NOT GIVEN.
5. A MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICE AGENCY THAT COMPLIES WITH THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE IMMUNE FROM CIVIL LIABILITY IF THE
PATIENT FAILS TO NOTIFY THE APPROPRIATE FIRE DEPARTMENT OR COMPANY OF
THE PATIENT'S NAME, ADDRESS, AGE, AND THE EXISTENCE OF OXYGEN OR AN
OXYGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM AT THE PATIENT'S RESIDENCE.
6. WHENEVER THE SUPPLYING OF OXYGEN OR THE PROVIDING OF AN OXYGEN
DELIVERY SYSTEM TO A PATIENT IS TERMINATED AND THE OXYGEN OR OXYGEN
DELIVERY SYSTEM IS REMOVED FROM THE PATIENT'S RESIDENCE, THE MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT SERVICE AGENCY SHALL SO NOTIFY THE APPROPRIATE FIRE DEPARTMENT
OR COMPANY. NOTICE SHALL BE GIVEN IN A MANNER, FORM, AND WITHIN A TIME
FRAME PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER. IF THE PATIENT OR THE PATIENT'S
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE NOTIFIED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OR COMPANY OF THE
EXISTENCE OF OXYGEN OR AN OXYGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM AT THE PATIENT'S RESI-
DENCE PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION, THE PATIENT OR THE
PATIENT'S AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE SHALL NOTIFY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OR
COMPANY THAT THE SUPPLYING OF OXYGEN OR THE PROVIDING OF AN OXYGEN
DELIVERY SYSTEM IS TERMINATED AND THAT THE OXYGEN OR OXYGEN DELIVERY
SYSTEM HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE PATIENT'S RESIDENCE. SUCH NOTIFICATION
SHALL BE PROVIDED WITHIN TEN DAYS OF REMOVAL.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.