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NY State Legislature · A916-2025 · Signed by Governor

Relates to guardians and health care agents

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Became law
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Officially: “Relates to guardians and health care agents Read the full text

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What it does

Includes guardians of the principal as a person who may commence certain special proceedings; provides that if a hospital can with reasonable efforts ascertain the identity of the parents or guardian of an emancipated minor patient and obtain such parent's or guardian's contact information, the hospital shall notify such persons, and document such notification in the patient's medical record, prior to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.
Summary from the sponsor's memo in the official legislative record, shown verbatim. Not legal advice.

Where it is

REFERRED TO HEALTH · Jan 8, 2025

Assembly

REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES · Jan 14, 2025

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REPORTED · Jan 14, 2025

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RULES REPORT CAL.17 · Jan 14, 2025

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ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.17 · Jan 14, 2025

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PASSED ASSEMBLY · Jan 22, 2025

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DELIVERED TO SENATE · Jan 22, 2025

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REFERRED TO RULES · Jan 22, 2025

Senate

SUBSTITUTED FOR S788 · Feb 11, 2025

Senate

3RD READING CAL.62 · Feb 11, 2025

Senate

PASSED SENATE · Feb 11, 2025

Senate

RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY · Feb 11, 2025

Senate

DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR · Feb 12, 2025

Assembly

SIGNED CHAP.29 · Feb 14, 2025

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The numbers

1
sponsor on the bill

Sponsors

Amy Paulin

Recorded votes

Recorded voteSenate · 2025-02-11 · EXC 2, NAY 22, AYE 39
Roll-call results shown verbatim from the New York legislature’s records. A result reflects that roll call’s own motion, not the bill’s overall outcome.
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