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A08905 Summary:

BILL NOA08905 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01468

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Amd §§17 & 18, Pub Health L; amd §33.16, Ment Hyg L

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Relates to the provision of patient health information and medical records; expands the definition of medical records to include all health related records; prohibits fees for providing certain records.

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BILL NOA08905 

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06/16/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8905

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 June 16, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. TORRES -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the mental hygiene law, in
 relation to patient health information and medical records

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

 1 Section 1. Section 17 of the public health law, as amended by chapter
 2 165 of the laws of 1991, the first undesignated paragraph as amended by
 3 chapter 322 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
 4 § 17. Release of [medical] health records to a designated health care
 5 provider. 1. Upon the written request of any competent patient, parent
 6 or guardian of an infant, a guardian appointed pursuant to article
 7 eighty-one of the mental hygiene law, or conservator of a conservatee,
 8 [an examining, consulting or treating physician or hospital must] a
 9 health care provider who has provided professional health care services
 10 pertaining to a patient shall release and deliver, exclusive of non-
 11 clinical personal notes of the [said physician or hospital] health care
 12 provider, copies of all [x-rays, medical] requested health records [and
 13 test records including all laboratory tests] regarding that patient to
 14 any other designated [physician or hospital provided, however, that]
 15 health care provider. However, such records concerning the treatment of
 16 an infant patient for venereal disease or the performance of an abortion
 17 operation upon such infant patient shall not be released or in any
 18 manner be made available to the parent or guardian of such infant, and
 19 provided, further, that original mammograms, rather than copies thereof,
 20 shall be released and delivered.
 21 [Either the physician or hospital] 2. A health care provider incurring
 22 the expense of providing copies of [x-rays, medical] health records [and
 23 test records including all laboratory tests] pursuant to the provisions
 24 of this section may impose a reasonable charge to be paid by the person
 25 requesting the release and deliverance of such records as reimbursement

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00309-01-5

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 1 [for such] not to exceed the health care provider's actual expenses,
 2 provided, however, that the [physician or hospital] health care provider
 3 may not impose a charge for copying an original mammogram when the
 4 original has been released or delivered to any competent patient, parent
 5 or guardian of an infant, a guardian appointed pursuant to article
 6 eighty-one of the mental hygiene law, or a conservator of a conservatee
 7 and provided, further, that any charge for delivering an original mammo-
 8 gram pursuant to this section shall not exceed the documented actual
 9 costs associated therewith[. However, the reasonable charge], which for
 10 paper copies shall not exceed seventy-five cents per page. A release of
 11 records under this section shall not be denied solely because of inabil-
 12 ity to pay. No charge may be imposed under this section for providing,
 13 releasing, or delivering medical records or copies of medical records
 14 where requested for the purpose of supporting an application, claim or
 15 appeal for any government benefit or program, provided that, where a
 16 provider maintains medical records in electronic form, it shall provide
 17 the copy in either electronic or pape