New York S 8965: Relates to "The New York State Low Embodied Carbon Concrete Leadership Act"

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S08965 Summary:

BILL NOS08965 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10203

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SPONSORHINCHEY

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COSPNSRADDABBO, BROUK, COMRIE, FAHY, FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER,
 LIU, MAY, MYRIE, RIVERA, RYAN C, SALAZAR, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, WEBB, ZELLNER

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §2803-cc, amd §§2803 & 4408, Pub Health L; amd §§3217-a & 4324, Ins L

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Relates to providing information to patients and the public on hospital rule-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each hospital a list of its hospital rule-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.

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BILL NOS08965 

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01/21/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

04/21/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

06/04/2026COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/04/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1739

06/04/2026PASSED SENATE

06/04/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/04/2026referred to ways and means

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8965

 IN SENATE

 January 21, 2026
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 Introduced by Sens. HINCHEY, ADDABBO, BROUK, COMRIE, FAHY, FERNANDEZ,
 GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY,
 MYRIE, RIVERA, C. RYAN, SALAZAR, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, WEBB -- read
 twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
 Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the insurance law, in relation
 to providing information to patients and the public on hospital rule-
 based exclusions

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that since 2003
 2 more than 40 community hospitals in New York state have closed.
 3 The legislature additionally finds that as a result of hospital
 4 consolidation, large health care systems now control more than 70
 5 percent of acute hospital beds in the state and that these systems some-
 6 times remove categories of care from local hospitals, leaving patients
 7 in regions of the state without access to particular types of care,
 8 including some types of emergency care.
 9 The legislature further finds that patients do not have the ability to
 10 determine whether health care facilities in their area provide the care
 11 they seek, because information about how facility restrictions impact
 12 options for care is too difficult to obtain.
 13 The legislature also finds that denials and poor access to care can
 14 lead to serious adverse health impacts that jeopardize individuals'
 15 lives and wellbeing and that New York needs to understand health care
 16 gaps and their impact statewide.
 17 Finally, the legislature finds that some denials of care violate state
 18 and federal law.
 19 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2803-cc
 20 to read as follows:
 21 § 2803-cc. Hospital rule-based exclusions. 1. As used in this
 22 section, "hospital rule-based exclusions" means any criteria, rules, or
 23 policies, whether written or unwritten, formally adopted or drafted,
 24 endorsed by the general hospital or followed from an external source,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04973-03-6

 S. 8965 2

 1 that restrict a general hospital from providing types of care, within
 2 the covered practice areas pursuant to subdivision one-a of this
 3 section, that the general hospital is licensed to provide or that
 4 restrict the provision of care to categories of patients on the basis of
 5 any characteristic protected under section two hundred ninety-six of the
 6 executive law that the general hospital is licensed to provide. "Hospi-
 7 tal rule-based exclusions" shall include, but not be limited to,
 8 objections under section twenty-nine hundred eighty-four or twenty-nine
 9 hundred ninety-four-n of this chapter. "Hospital rule-based exclusions"
 10 shall not include restrictions based on lack of equipment, available bed
 11 space in the facility, or insurance denial.
 12 1-a. (a) Cove