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Senate Bill S10286

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires reporting of a criminal conviction and sentence of a physician

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2025-S10286 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2629
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §380.85, CP L; amd §2995-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9712
2023-2024: A1596

2025-S10286 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the reporting of sentences of certain medical professionals to the office of professional medical conduct within twenty-four hours; requires the department of health to disseminate a criminal conviction and sentence of a physician within forty-eight hours of receipt.

2025-S10286 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10286
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 11, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law, in relation to reporting
   certain convictions  and  sentences  to  the  office  of  professional
   medical  conduct  within  twenty-four  hours;  and to amend the public
   health law, in relation to requiring the department to  disseminate  a
   criminal  conviction  and  criminal  sentence  of  a  physician within
   forty-eight hours of receipt
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 380.85 of the criminal procedure law, as added by
 chapter 477 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
 § 380.85 Reporting sentences to office of professional medical  conduct;
            licensed   physician,   physician  assistant,  or  specialist
            assistant.
   Whenever a person who is a licensed physician, physician assistant, or
 specialist assistant or a physician who is practicing  under  a  limited
 permit or as a medical resident is sentenced for a crime, the court that
 has  sentenced  such  person  shall deliver a copy of the certificate of
 conviction and provide notification of the conviction  and  sentence  to
 the office of professional medical conduct WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
   §  2.  Subdivision  9  of  section 2995-a of the public health law, as
 amended by section 3 of part A of chapter 57 of the  laws  of  2015,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   9.  (A)  The  department  shall,  in  addition  to hard copy physician
 profiles, provide for electronic access  to  and  copying  of  physician
 profiles  developed pursuant to this section through the system commonly
 known as the Internet. The department shall update a physician's  online
 profile  within  thirty days of receipt of a completed physician profile
 survey or any change in profile information.
   (B) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY,
 THE DEPARTMENT SHALL UPDATE A PHYSICIAN'S ONLINE PROFILE  WITHIN  FORTY-
 EIGHT HOURS OF RECEIPT OF A COPY OF A CERTIFICATE OF CONVICTION PURSUANT
 TO SECTION 380.85 OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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