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A03926 Summary:

BILL NOA03926A

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Enacts the medical civil rights act; provides that persons in the custody or control of a law enforcement officer, police officer, peace officer, correctional officer, or other law enforcement representative or entity who are experiencing an emergency medical condition or is medically unstable have the right to be provided with emergency medical services and that such officers, representatives, and entities have a duty to provide such services; provides an exception to such duty to provide emergency medical services.

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BILL NOA03926A

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01/30/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

04/14/2026amend and recommit to codes

04/14/2026print number 3926a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3926--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to enacting the
 medical civil rights act

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "medical civil rights act".
 3 § 2. Section 28 of the civil rights law, as added by chapter 103 of
 4 the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
 5 § 28. [Medical attention for persons under arrest. When a person is
 6 under arrest or otherwise in the custody of a] Provision of emergency
 7 medical care to individuals who are in direct contact with or under the
 8 custody or control of a law enforcement officer, peace officer, police
 9 officer, correctional officer or other law enforcement representative or
 10 entity. 1. Any person who experiences an emergency medical condition or
 11 is medically unstable while in direct audio or visual contact with, or
 12 under the custody or control of a law enforcement officer, peace offi-
 13 cer, police officer, correctional officer or other law enforcement
 14 representative or entity shall have the right to be provided with emer-
 15 gency medical services.
 16 2. A law enforcement officer, police officer, peace officer, correc-
 17 tional officer, or other law enforcement representative or entity[, such
 18 officer, representative or entity] shall have a duty to provide atten-
 19 tion to the emergency medical [and mental health] needs of such person,
 20 [and obtain assistance and treatment of such needs for such person,
 21 which are reasonable and provided in good faith under the circumstances]
 22 except as provided in subdivision three of this section, and to imme-
 23 diately request emergency medical services for any such person who has

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07319-04-6

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 1 communicated to such officer, representative, or entity that such person
 2 is experiencing an emergency medical condition or is medically unstable;
 3 or who has been reasonably observed by such officer, representative, or
 4 entity to be experiencing an emergency medical condition or to be
 5 medically unstable.
 6 3. A law enforcement officer, peace officer, police officer, correc-
 7 tional officer or other law enforcement representative or entity shall
 8 not be required to request emergency medical services when such officer,
 9 representative, or entity, has made a reasonable determination that the
 10 person is not experiencing an emergency medical condition, or is not
 11 medically unstable, and knows that such person has been seen by a
 12 medical professional within the previous twenty-four hours and was
 13 released from such medical professional's care after a determination
 14 that such person was not experiencing a