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Senate Bill S9548

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-S9548 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9536
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803, Pub Health L; amd §100.15, CP L

2025-S9548 (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-S9548 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9548 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9548
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 24, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee 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; 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
 AGAINST ANY PERSON WHO PROVIDES FACE-TO-FACE CARE TO OR DIRECT  OBSERVA-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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