New York A 8828: Provides guidelines, corrective actions, and transparency, and to reconfigure the composition of committees of professional conduct within the office of professional medical conduct

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A08828 Summary:

BILL NOA08828A

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SAME ASSAME AS S08325-B

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SPONSORBichotte Hermelyn

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §230-f, amd §230, Pub Health L

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Provides guidelines, corrective actions, and transparency, and reconfigures the composition of committees of professional conduct within the office of professional medical conduct.

Go to top A08828 Actions:

BILL NOA08828A

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06/09/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

04/13/2026amend (t) and recommit to health

04/13/2026print number 8828a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8828--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 June 9, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in
 accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing guide-
 lines, corrective actions, and transparency, and to reconfigure the
 composition of committees of professional conduct within the office of
 professional medical conduct

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. On May 15, 2025, Newsday published
 2 "Broken Practice: Doctor misconduct on Long Island", a two-year inves-
 3 tigation that found that forty-six doctors on Long Island were allowed
 4 to practice freely for months or years despite criminal convictions
 5 including fraud, sexual abuse and the illegal dispensing of opioids.
 6 This legislature finds that the office of professional medical conduct
 7 currently reviews complaints made against physicians to determine the
 8 verity of allegations of professional misconduct. Yet there is currently
 9 no uniform framework established in the law to outline specific penal-
 10 ties or actions that could be taken following the determination that a
 11 licensee had violated professional misconduct law. Therefore, this
 12 legislature establishes a uniform set of legal guidelines for penalties
 13 and actions which can be taken by any committee to provide a more
 14 uniform framework for the provision of justice.
 15 Additionally, the legislature finds that to ensure a variety of opin-
 16 ions and expertise on the committees which investigate allegations of
 17 professional misconduct, to include one physician, and two lay members,
 18 one of whom shall hold a doctoral degree and are currently or have
 19 previously taught medicine within an academic institution's department
 20 of medicine or hold a master's in public health.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13308-07-6

 A. 8828--A 2

 1 The legislature holds that to increase awareness of such office that
 2 medical facilities should provide contact information and links to such
 3 office's website available to the patients through printed forms in a
 4 manner deemed fit by the commissioner of health.
 5 Finally, to provide greater transparency to the operations of such
 6 office, the legislature shall require final determinations of penalties
 7 or actions against a licensee to be published on the office's website
 8 and for notification to be provided to the source of the initial
 9 complaint within ten days of the office making any final determinations.
 10 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 230-f to
 11 read as follows:
 12 § 230-f. Guidelines for penalties and actions. Pursuant to section two
 13 hundred thirty of this title, any penalty or action against a licensee
 14 as determined by the office of professional medical conduct or any
 15 committee thereof shall comply with the following maximum or minimum
 16 guidelines for the issuance of penalties or actions associated with
 17 professional misconduct pursuant to section sixty-five hundred thirty of
 18 the education law or other violations under this section. The office of
 19 profes