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Senate Bill S9730

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the use of metal detectors at all general hospital public entrances

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2025-S9730 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10629
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2832, Pub Health L

2025-S9730 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the use of metal detectors at all general hospital public entrances.

2025-S9730 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9730
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 2, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 requiring the  use
   of metal detectors at all general hospital public entrances
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 2832 of the public health law,  as
 added by chapter 618 of the laws of 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   5.  Based on the findings and ongoing review of the workplace violence
 assessment, general hospitals shall implement a workplace violence safe-
 ty and security plan, which shall be updated  as  necessary  to  address
 newly  identified  material  risks and changes in conditions. The safety
 and security plan shall specify  methods  to  reduce  identified  risks,
 which  may  include  employee training, increased staffing and security,
 engineering controls such as barriers,  lighting,  alarms  and  communi-
 cation  systems,  safety  equipment,  general  hospital  improvements or
 modifications, and other appropriate measures relevant  to  the  general
 hospital,  AND  SHALL AT A MINIMUM INCLUDE THE USE OF METAL DETECTORS AT
 ALL PUBLIC ENTRANCES.   Each general hospital shall  provide  a  written
 detailed  summary  of  the safety and security plan to its employees and
 collective  bargaining  representatives,  if  applicable.  Each  general
 hospital  shall also provide information to its employees and collective
 bargaining representatives, if applicable, about how to report incidents
 of workplace violence. Each general hospital shall  share  summaries  of
 the  incident  log,  appropriately  redacted  to  protect the privacy of
 persons involved in an incident, trends and analysis  of  relevant  data
 with  the  general hospital security or safety committee responsible for
 workplace violence and ensure that the data is  part  of  the  workplace
 violence assessment process.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately, provided, however, if
 chapter 618 of the laws of 2025 shall not have taken effect on or before
 such date then this act shall take effect on the same date  and  in  the
 same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2025 takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15207-01-6

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