New York S 6098: Enacts the uniform emergency volunteer health practitioners act for declared state disaster emergencies

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Enacts the "uniform emergency volunteer health practitioners act" for declared state disaster emergencies; establishes a system to deploy health service workers from out of state during a state disaster emergency.

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03/05/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6098

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 5, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 enacting the
 "uniform emergency volunteer health practitioners act"

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

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "uniform
 2 emergency volunteer health practitioners act".
 3 § 2. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that in times of
 4 emergencies that it may be necessary to rapidly deploy health service
 5 workers from out-of-state. For such necessities, it is beneficial to
 6 have a registry and uniform system of rules to deploy the relevant work-
 7 ers with minimal complications. Accordingly, this legislature adopts the
 8 "uniform emergency volunteer health practitioners act" in New York.
 9 § 3. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 30-E to
 10 read as follows:
 11 ARTICLE 30-E
 12 UNIFORM EMERGENCY VOLUNTEER HEALTH PRACTITIONERS ACT
 13 Section 3083. Definitions.
 14 3084. Applicability to volunteer health practitioners.
 15 3085. Regulation of services during emergency.
 16 3086. Volunteer health practitioner registration systems.
 17 3087. Recognition of volunteer health practitioners licensed in
 18 other states.
 19 3088. No effect on credentialing and privileging.
 20 3089. Provision of volunteer health or veterinary services;
 21 administrative sanctions.
 22 3090. Relation to other laws.
 23 3091. Regulatory authority.
 24 3092. Limitations on civil liability for volunteer health prac-
 25 titioners; vicarious liability.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10652-01-5

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 1 3093. Workers' compensation coverage.
 2 3094. Uniformity of application and construction.
 3 § 3083. Definitions. As used in in this article:
 4 1. "Credentialing" means obtaining, verifying, and assessing the qual-
 5 ifications of a health practitioner to provide treatment, care, or
 6 services in or for a health facility.
 7 2. "Disaster relief organization" means an entity that provides emer-
 8 gency or disaster relief services that include health or veterinary
 9 services provided by volunteer health practitioners and that:
 10 (a) is designated or recognized as a provider of those services pursu-
 11 ant to a disaster response and recovery plan adopted by an agency of the
 12 federal government, or New York state division of homeland security and
 13 emergency services, or of the state disaster preparedness commission
 14 empowered by section twenty-one of the executive law; or
 15 (b) regularly plans and conducts its activities in coordination with
 16 an agency of the federal government or the New York state division of
 17 homeland security and emergency services.
 18 3. "Emergency" means an event or condition that is an emergency,
 19 disaster, or public health emergency defined as a disaster under article
 20 two-B of the executive law.
 21 4. "Emergency declaration" means a declaration of emergency issued by
 22 a person authorized to do so under the laws of this state, including as
 23 defined in section twenty-eight of the executive law, a political subdi-
 24 vision of this state, or a municipality or other local government within
 25 this state.
 26 5. "Emergency management assistance compact" means the interstate
 27 compact approved by Congre