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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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753
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the definition
of medical debt
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision (v) of section 380-a of the general business
law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general
business law and the public health law relating to the definition of
medical debt, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8373-A and A.
9438, is amended to read as follows:
(v) The term "medical debt" means any obligation or alleged obligation
of a consumer to pay any amount whatsoever related to the receipt of
health care services, products, or devices provided TO A PERSON by a
hospital licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law, a
health care professional authorized under title eight of the education
law, or an ambulance service certified under article thirty of the
public health law. Medical debt does not include debt charged to a cred-
it card unless the credit card is issued under an open-ended or closed-
ended plan offered specifically for the payment of health care services,
products, or devices provided to a person.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general business
law and the public health law relating to the definition of medical
debt, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8373-A and A. 9438,
takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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