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Assembly Bill A9536A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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 hospital worker

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2025-A9536 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9548
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803, Pub Health L; amd §100.15, CP L

2025-A9536 - Summary

Limits the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient to their employee identification number, first name and first initial of last name when full name identification may place the personal safety of such individual in jeopardy; requires complainants to only submit their employer's address in cases involving an alleged offense against a hospital worker.

2025-A9536 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9536
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee 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
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph (v) of  paragraph  (g)  of  subdivision  1  of
 section  2803 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 618 of the
 laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (v) a right to be informed of the name, position, and functions of any
 persons, including medical students and physicians exempt from New  York
 state licensure pursuant to section sixty-five hundred twenty-six of the
 education law, who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of
 the  patient,  EXCEPT THAT A HOSPITAL MAY LIMIT THE IDENTIFICATION OF AN
 INDIVIDUAL, INCLUDING IN MEDICAL RECORDS PROVIDED TO THE PATIENT AT  ANY
 TIME,  TO  THEIR  EMPLOYEE  IDENTIFICATION  NUMBER, FIRST NAME AND FIRST
 INITIAL OF LAST  NAME  WHEN  FULL  NAME  IDENTIFICATION  MAY  PLACE  THE
 PERSONAL SAFETY OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL IN JEOPARDY;
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14064-03-5

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2025-A9536A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9548
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803, Pub Health L; amd §100.15, CP L

2025-A9536A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the identification of individuals who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of a patient to their employee identification number, first name and first initial of last name when full name identification may place the personal safety of such individual in jeopardy; requires complainants to only submit their employer's address in cases involving an alleged offense against a hospital worker.

2025-A9536A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9536--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER, KELLES -- read once and referred 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 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:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (v)  of  paragraph  (g) of subdivision 1 of
 section 2803 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 618 of  the
 laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (v) a right to be informed of the name, position, and functions of any
 persons,  including medical students and physicians exempt from New York
 state licensure pursuant to section sixty-five hundred twenty-six of the
 education law, who provide face-to-face care to or direct observation of
 the patient, EXCEPT THAT A HOSPITAL MAY LIMIT THE IDENTIFICATION  OF  AN
 INDIVIDUAL,  INCLUDING IN MEDICAL RECORDS PROVIDED TO THE PATIENT AT ANY
 TIME, TO THEIR EMPLOYEE IDENTIFICATION  NUMBER,  FIRST  NAME  AND  FIRST
 INITIAL  OF  LAST  NAME  WHEN  FULL  NAME  IDENTIFICATION  MAY PLACE THE
 PERSONAL SAFETY OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL IN JEOPARDY;
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 100.15 of the criminal procedure law  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.    An  information,  a misdemeanor complaint and a felony complaint
 must each specify the name of the court with which it is filed  and  the
 title  of  the  action,  and must be subscribed and verified by a person
 known as the "complainant."  The complainant may be  any  person  having
 knowledge,  whether  personal  or  upon  information  and belief, of the
 commission of the offense or offenses charged.    Each  instrument  must
 contain  an  accusatory  part  and  a  factual part.   The complainant's
 verification of the instrument is deemed to apply only  to  the  factual
 part  thereof  and  not  to  the  accusatory  part.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY
 PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, IN THE  CASE  OF  AN  ALLEGED  OFFENSE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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