New York S 1633: Provides additional protections for sensitive health information and requires patients to have the right to restrict the disclosures of such patient's health information

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
S01633 Summary:

BILL NOS01633B

&nbsp

SAME ASSAME AS A02613-A

&nbsp

SPONSORFERNANDEZ

&nbsp

COSPNSRCLEARE, COMRIE, FAHY, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KRUEGER, LIU, MAYER,
 SALAZAR, WEBB

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

Add §§25 & 26, Pub Health L

&nbsp

Provides additional protections for sensitive health information; requires all health information networks, electronic health record systems, and health care providers to provide patients with a right to restrict the disclosures of such patient's health information; defines terms; provides for exceptions.

Go to top S01633 Actions:

BILL NOS01633B

&nbsp

01/13/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

05/13/20251ST REPORT CAL.1082

05/14/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/15/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/12/2026AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH

01/12/2026PRINT NUMBER 1633A

01/27/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

01/27/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.140

01/27/2026PASSED SENATE

01/27/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

01/27/2026referred to health

04/27/2026RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY

04/27/2026returned to senate

04/27/2026VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING

04/27/2026AMENDED ON THIRD READING 1633B

05/19/2026REPASSED SENATE

05/19/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

05/19/2026referred to health

Go to topS01633 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topS01633 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topS01633 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1633--B
 Cal. No. 140

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. FERNANDEZ, CLEARE, COMRIE, FAHY, GONZALEZ,
 GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, KRUEGER, LIU, SALAZAR -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with
 Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
 to the Committee on Rules in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
 reported favorably from said committee, ordered to a third reading,
 passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote recon-
 sidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
 retaining its place in the order of third reading

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing addi-
 tional protections for sensitive health information and requiring all
 health information networks, electronic health records systems, and
 health care providers to provide patients with a right to restrict the
 disclosures of such patient's health information

 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 two new sections
 2 25 and 26 to read as follows:
 3 § 25. Privacy of information disclosed through health information
 4 networks. 1. Definitions. For purposes of this section:
 5 (a) "Business associate" shall have the same meaning as set forth in
 6 45 CFR 160.103.
 7 (b) "Codified sensitive information" means patient information that,
 8 by associated standard codes commonly used in the exchange of patient
 9 information including, but not limited to ICD-10 or SNOMED, can be iden-
 10 tified as sensitive information in accordance with subdivision three of
 11 this section.
 12 (c) "Disclosure" means the release, transfer, provision of access to,
 13 or divulging in any manner of information outside the entity that deliv-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04417-08-6

 S. 1633--B 2

 1 ered the health care and the patient who received the care, and such
 2 term shall not include any of the exceptions set forth in the definition
 3 of "disclosure to any other person" as defined in paragraph (e) of
 4 subdivision one of section eighteen of this chapter.
 5 (d) "Electronic health records system" means any entity operating in
 6 the state of New York that electronically stores or maintains patient
 7 information, electronic health records, personal health records, health
 8 care claims, or payment and other administrative data