New York S 9897: Requires general hospitals and nursing homes to offer free notarial services to patients

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S09897 Summary:

BILL NOS09897 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06235

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SPONSORZELLNER

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §2805-aa, Pub Health L

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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.

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BILL NOS09897 

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04/13/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

05/28/2026COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

05/28/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1422

06/04/2026PASSED SENATE

06/04/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/04/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9897

 IN SENATE

 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:

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2 2805-aa to read as follows:
 3 § 2805-aa. Hospital and nursing home notarial services. Every general
 4 hospital and nursing home shall have an employee present, from eight
 5 o'clock a.m. to six o'clock p.m. each business day, who has been
 6 appointed as a notary public pursuant to section one hundred thirty of
 7 the executive law. Such employee shall offer notarial services to
 8 patients of such general hospital or nursing home at no charge to such
 9 patients. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a gener-
 10 al hospital or nursing home from offering free notarial services to
 11 patients outside the hours of eight o'clock a.m. to six o'clock p.m., or
 12 on non-business days.
 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 14 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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