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Senate Bill S9897

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires general hospitals and nursing homes to offer free notarial services to patients

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2025-S9897 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6235
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2805-aa, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7943, A8236

2025-S9897 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires general hospitals and nursing homes to offer free notarial services to patients; requires an employee of such general hospital or nursing home who is a notary public to be present from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on business days.

2025-S9897 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9897 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9897
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 13, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ZELLNER -- 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  general
   hospitals  and  nursing  homes  to  offer  free  notarial  services to
   patients
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2805-aa to read as follows:
   § 2805-AA. HOSPITAL AND NURSING HOME NOTARIAL SERVICES. EVERY  GENERAL
 HOSPITAL  AND  NURSING  HOME  SHALL HAVE AN EMPLOYEE PRESENT, FROM EIGHT
 O'CLOCK A.M. TO SIX  O'CLOCK  P.M.  EACH  BUSINESS  DAY,  WHO  HAS  BEEN
 APPOINTED  AS  A NOTARY PUBLIC PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY OF
 THE EXECUTIVE LAW.  SUCH  EMPLOYEE  SHALL  OFFER  NOTARIAL  SERVICES  TO
 PATIENTS  OF  SUCH GENERAL HOSPITAL OR NURSING HOME AT NO CHARGE TO SUCH
 PATIENTS. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO PREVENT A GENER-
 AL HOSPITAL OR NURSING HOME FROM  OFFERING  FREE  NOTARIAL  SERVICES  TO
 PATIENTS OUTSIDE THE HOURS OF EIGHT O'CLOCK A.M. TO SIX O'CLOCK P.M., OR
 ON NON-BUSINESS DAYS.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02946-01-5

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