Senate Bill S9548A

                             
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                                  9548--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 24, 2026
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  C. RYAN, GRIFFO, SKOUFIS, WEBER -- 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 and the education 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 proce-
   dure law, in relation to requiring complainants  to  only  submit  the
   address  of  the  health  care  facility  at which they were providing
   services at the time of the offense  in  cases  involving  an  alleged
   offense against a health care practitioner
 
   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  GENERAL  HOSPITAL SHALL ALLOW EMPLOYEES,
 CONTRACTORS AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS WHO PROVIDE FACE-TO-FACE  CARE  TO  OR
 DIRECT  OBSERVATION  OF  THE  PATIENT  TO LIST ONLY THEIR FIRST NAME AND
 FIRST INITIAL OF THEIR LAST NAME ON THEIR IDENTIFICATION BADGE;
   §  2. Subdivision 37 of section 6530 of the education law, as added by
 chapter 606 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
   37. Failing to wear an identifying badge, which shall be conspicuously
 displayed and legible, indicating the practitioner's  name  and  profes-
 sional title authorized pursuant to this chapter, while practicing as an
 employee or operator of a hospital, clinic, group practice or multi-pro-
 fessional  facility,  or  at  a commercial establishment offering health
 services to the public; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  HOSPITALS  SHALL  ALLOW
 EMPLOYEES,  CONTRACTORS  AND  OTHER INDIVIDUALS WHO PROVIDE FACE-TO-FACE
 CARE TO OR DIRECT OBSERVATION OF PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL FACILITIES TO LIST
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 JUST THEIR FIRST NAME AND FIRST INITIAL OF  THEIR  LAST  NAME  ON  THEIR
 IDENTIFICATION BADGES;
   § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 2803 of the public health law is amended
 by adding a new paragraph (g-1) to read as follows:
   (G-1)  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE OR
 ANY RULE OR REGULATION  PROMULGATED  THEREUNDER,  EVERY  HOSPITAL  SHALL
 ALLOW  EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS WHO PROVIDE FACE-TO-
 FACE CARE TO OR DIRECT OBSERVATION OF PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL FACILITIES TO
 LIST JUST THEIR FIRST NAME AND FIRST INITIAL OF THEIR LAST NAME ON THEIR
 IDENTIFICATION BADGES.
   § 4. 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 accusa-
 tory  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, WHEN A HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER IS THE  COMPLAINANT  REGARDING
 AN  OFFENSE  COMMITTED  AGAINST  THEM  IN THE COURSE OF PERFORMING THEIR
 PROFESSIONAL DUTIES IN A HEALTH CARE FACILITY, AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWO
 THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH  LAW,  THE  PRACTITIONER
 SHALL  BE  ALLOWED TO PROVIDE THE ADDRESS OF THE HEALTH CARE FACILITY AT
 WHICH THEY WERE PROVIDING SERVICES AT THE TIME OF THE OFFENSE AND  SHALL
 NOT BE REQUIRED TO INCLUDE THEIR PERSONAL ADDRESS.
   § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.