New York S 8835: Relates to amending provisions regarding health care facilities and professionals during the COVID-19 emergency

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S08835 Summary:

BILL NOS08835 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09515

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SPONSORRIVERA

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§2899-d, 2899-e, 2899-f, 2899-h, 2899-i, 2899-j, 2899-k, 2899-m & 2899-n, Pub Health L; amd §3, Chap of
2025 (as proposed in S. 138 & A. 136); amd §6530, Ed L

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Relates to requirements for medical professionals and health care facilities that provide medication to patients for medical aid in dying; extends the initial effectiveness of certain provisions relating thereto.

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BILL NOS08835 

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01/08/2026REFERRED TO RULES

01/12/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.49

02/04/2026SUBSTITUTED BY A9515

&nbspA09515 AMEND= Paulin

&nbsp01/12/2026referred to health

&nbsp02/04/2026reported referred to codes

&nbsp02/04/2026reported referred to rules

&nbsp02/04/2026reported 

&nbsp02/04/2026rules report cal.77

&nbsp02/04/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.77

&nbsp02/04/2026passed assembly

&nbsp02/04/2026delivered to senate

&nbsp02/04/2026REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp02/04/2026SUBSTITUTED FOR S8835

&nbsp02/04/20263RD READING CAL.49

&nbsp02/04/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp02/04/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp02/06/2026delivered to governor

&nbsp02/06/2026signed chap.1

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8835

 IN SENATE

 January 8, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
 to requirements for the provision of medication for medical aid in
 dying; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the public
 health law relating to a terminally ill patient's request for and use
 of medication for medical aid in dying, as proposed in legislative
 bills numbers S. 138 and A. 136, in relation to the effectiveness
 thereof

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 4, 5, 11, 13, 17 and 18 of section 2899-d of
 2 the public health law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2025 amend-
 3 ing the public health law relating to a terminally ill patient's request
 4 for and use of medication for medical aid in dying, as proposed in
 5 legislative bills numbers S. 138 and A. 136, are amended to read as
 6 follows:
 7 4. "Consulting physician" means a physician who is qualified by
 8 specialty or experience to make a professional diagnosis and prognosis
 9 regarding a [person's] patient's terminal illness or condition.
 10 5. "Health care facility" means a general hospital, nursing home, or
 11 residential health care facility as defined in section twenty-eight
 12 hundred one of this chapter, or a hospice as defined in section four
 13 thousand two of this chapter[; provided that for the purposes of section
 14 twenty eight hundred ninety-nine-m of this article, "hospice" shall
 15 refer only to a facility providing in-patient hospice care or a hospice
 16 residence].
 17 11. "Mental health professional" means [a licensed physician, who is a
 18 diplomate or eligible to be certified by a national board of psychiatry,
 19 psychiatric nurse practitioner, or psychologist, licensed or certified
 20 under the education law acting within such mental health professional's
 21 scope of practice and who is qualified, by training and experience,
 22 certification, or board certification or eligibility, to make a determi-
 23 nation under section twenty-eight hundred ninety-nine-i of this article]

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00320-02-6

 S. 8835 2

 1 an individual (a) licensed to practice medicine in New York state who is
 2 a diplomate of the American board of psychiatry and neurology or is
 3 eligible to be certified by that board or is certified by the American
 4 osteopathic board of neurology and psychiatry or is eligible to be
 5 certified by that board; or (b) licensed to practice psychology under
 6 title eight of the education law.
 7 13. "Patient" means