New York S 6223: Requires home health aides and nurse's aides to receive training in working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals

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S06223 Summary:

BILL NOS06223A

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SAME ASSAME AS A03404-A

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Amd §2805-r, Pub Health L

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Requires hospitals to permit an interpreter to remain with a deaf, hard of hearing or nonverbal patient during admission to a hospital until appropriate hospital staff is assigned to interpret.

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BILL NOS06223A

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03/06/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

03/28/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH

03/28/2025PRINT NUMBER 6223A

05/13/20251ST REPORT CAL.1091

05/14/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/15/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/21/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A3404A

&nbspA03404 AMEND=A Lavine

&nbsp01/27/2025referred to health

&nbsp02/24/2025reported 

&nbsp02/27/2025advanced to third reading cal.39

&nbsp04/01/2025amended on third reading 3404a

&nbsp05/12/2025passed assembly

&nbsp05/12/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp05/12/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

&nbsp05/21/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S6223A

&nbsp05/21/20253RD READING CAL.1091

&nbsp05/21/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp05/21/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp10/09/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp10/16/2025vetoed memo.42

&nbsp10/17/2025tabled

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6223--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 6, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to treatment of deaf,
 hard of hearing and nonverbal individuals during admission to a hospi-
 tal

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

 1 Section 1. Section 2805-r of the public health law, as added by chap-
 2 ter 451 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 2805-r. Patients unable to hear or verbally communicate. 1. The
 4 department shall make regulations concerning the treatment of general
 5 hospital patients who are unable to hear or verbally communicate, for
 6 whatever reason, with a health care practitioner or aide.
 7 2. Such regulations shall establish standards for a deaf, hard of
 8 hearing or nonverbal patient to have present during [his or her] their
 9 period of admission a parent, guardian, representative, interpreter or
 10 authorized helper to assist in the communication with health care
 11 personnel. Such person shall be permitted to remain with the patient for
 12 interpretation until a hospital-provided qualified interpreter, or other
 13 qualified person is assigned to the patient.
 14 3. The standards established under this section shall be incorporated
 15 into the statement of rights and responsibilities adopted pursuant to
 16 paragraph (g) of subdivision one of section twenty-eight hundred three
 17 of this article.
 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05040-03-5

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