New York S 3242: Relates to a community gardens task force

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S03242 Summary:

BILL NOS03242 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06835

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SPONSORCOONEY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §6527, Ed L; amd §2805-m, Pub Health L

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Removes the prohibition relating to certain discovery of testimony in certain actions for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice.

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BILL NOS03242 

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01/24/2025REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3242

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
 to removing the prohibition relating to certain discovery of testi-
 mony

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 6527 of the education law, as
 2 amended by chapter 257 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 3. No individual who serves as a member of (a) a committee established
 5 to administer a utilization review plan of a hospital, including a
 6 hospital as defined in article twenty-eight of the public health law or
 7 a hospital as defined in subdivision ten of section 1.03 of the mental
 8 hygiene law, or (b) a committee having the responsibility of the inves-
 9 tigation of an incident reported pursuant to section 29.29 of the mental
 10 hygiene law or the evaluation and improvement of the quality of care
 11 rendered in a hospital as defined in article twenty-eight of the public
 12 health law or a hospital as defined in subdivision ten of section 1.03
 13 of the mental hygiene law, or (c) any medical review committee or
 14 subcommittee thereof of a local, county or state medical, dental, podia-
 15 try or optometrical society, any such society itself, a professional
 16 standards review organization or an individual when such committee,
 17 subcommittee, society, organization or individual is performing any
 18 medical or quality assurance review function including the investigation
 19 of an incident reported pursuant to section 29.29 of the mental hygiene
 20 law, either described in clauses (a) and (b) of this subdivision,
 21 required by law, or involving any controversy or dispute between (i) a
 22 physician, dentist, podiatrist or optometrist or hospital administrator
 23 and a patient concerning the diagnosis, treatment or care of such
 24 patient or the fees or charges therefor or (ii) a physician, dentist,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00936-01-5

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 1 podiatrist or optometrist or hospital administrator and a provider of
 2 medical, dental, podiatric or optometrical services concerning any
 3 medical or health charges or fees of such physician, dentist, podiatrist
 4 or optometrist, or (d) a committee appointed pursuant to section twen-
 5 ty-eight hundred five-j of the public health law to participate in the
 6 medical and dental malpractice prevention program, or (e) any individual
 7 who participated in the preparation of incident reports required by the
 8 department of health pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred five-l of
 9 the public health law, or (f) a committee established to administer a
 10 utilization review plan, or a committee having the responsibility of
 11 evaluation and improvement of the quality of care rendered, in a health
 12 maintenance organization organized under article forty-four of the
 13 public health law or article forty-three of the insurance law, including
 14 a committee of an individual practice association or medical group
 15 acting pursuant to a contract with such a health maintenance organiza-
 16 tion, shall be liable in damages to any person for any action taken or
 17 recommendations made, [by him] within the scope of [his] their function
 18 in such capacity provided that (a) such individual has taken action or
 19 made