New York S 6578: Enacts the farm laborers fair labor practices act, granting collective bargaining rights, workers' compensation and unemployment benefits to farm laborers

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S06578 Summary:

BILL NOS06578A

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SAME ASSAME AS A07840-A

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SPONSORHINCHEY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §4138-c, Pub Health L

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Provides that consenting registrants of the adoption information registry may pre-authorize the release of identifying information.

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BILL NOS06578A

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03/17/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

05/13/20251ST REPORT CAL.1092

05/14/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/15/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

06/11/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/11/2025referred to health

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

03/06/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH

03/06/2026PRINT NUMBER 6578A

05/05/20261ST REPORT CAL.977

05/06/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/07/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/28/2026SUBSTITUTED BY A7840A

&nbspA07840 AMEND=A Weprin

&nbsp04/11/2025referred to health

&nbsp05/27/2025reported referred to rules

&nbsp01/07/2026referred to health

&nbsp03/05/2026amend and recommit to health

&nbsp03/05/2026print number 7840a

&nbsp03/10/2026reported 

&nbsp03/12/2026advanced to third reading cal.292

&nbsp05/05/2026passed assembly

&nbsp05/05/2026delivered to senate

&nbsp05/05/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

&nbsp05/28/2026SUBSTITUTED FOR S6578A

&nbsp05/28/20263RD READING CAL.977

&nbsp05/28/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp05/28/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6578--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 17, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- 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

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the release of
 identifying information of consenting registrants from the adoption
 registry

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 4138-c of the public health law,
 2 as amended by chapter 181 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 6. Upon receipt of a final consent or pre-authorization consent form
 5 by the adoptee, by either of the birth parents, and/or by a biological
 6 sibling of the adoptee, the department shall, unless the adoptee or
 7 biological sibling registrant shall elect otherwise, if an authorized
 8 agency was involved in such adoption, release identifying information to
 9 such agency; such agency shall thereafter promptly release identifying
 10 information about the consenting registrants to the consenting regis-
 11 trants. If no authorized agency was involved, or if any registrant shall
 12 have elected not to have release of the information by the authorized
 13 agency involved in such adoption the department shall release identify-
 14 ing information to the consenting registrants. Such identifying informa-
 15 tion shall be limited to the names and addresses of the consenting
 16 registrants and shall not include any other information contained in the
 17 adoption or birth records. However, nothing in this section shall be
 18 construed to prevent the release of adoption records as otherwise
 19 permitted by law.
 20 § 2. Section 4138-c of the public health law is amended by adding a
 21 new subdivision 6-b to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11033-03-6

 S. 6578--A 2

 1 6-b. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations for the
 2 creation of a pre-authorization consent form to be used by an adoptee,
 3 either of the birth parents, and/or a biological sibling to consent to
 4 the release of the consenting registrants' identifying information to
 5 the consenting registrants.
 6 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 7 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 8 repeal of any rule or regulation necessar