New York S 359: Prohibits state-operated hospitals from suing patients for medical debt

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S00359 Summary:

BILL NOS00359 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01356

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SPONSORRIVERA

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COSPNSRJACKSON, KRUEGER, MAY, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 51 §5100, Pub Health L

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Prohibits state-operated hospitals from suing patients for medical debt; defines "medical debt".

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BILL NOS00359 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

04/29/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

05/28/20251ST REPORT CAL.1337

05/29/20252ND REPORT CAL.

06/04/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 359

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, JACKSON, KRUEGER, MAY -- 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 prohibiting state-
 operated hospitals from suing patients for medical debt

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

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 51
 2 to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 51
 4 PROHIBITION ON STATE-OPERATED HOSPITALS SUING PATIENTS FOR
 5 MEDICAL DEBT
 6 Section 5100. Prohibition on state-operated hospitals suing patients for
 7 medical debt.
 8 § 5100. Prohibition on state-operated hospitals suing patients for
 9 medical debt. 1. No state university health care facility authorized
 10 under article eight of the education law, cancer institute authorized
 11 under article ten-C of the public authorities law, or hospital author-
 12 ized under section twenty-six hundred of this chapter shall pursue liti-
 13 gation in civil or supreme court against a patient for the pursuit of a
 14 medical debt.
 15 2. For the purposes of this section, the term "medical debt" shall
 16 mean an obligation or alleged obligation of a consumer to pay any amount
 17 related to the receipt of health care services, products, or devices
 18 provided to a person by a hospital licensed under article twenty-eight
 19 of this chapter, a health care professional authorized under title eight
 20 of the education law or an ambulance service certified under article
 21 thirty of this chapter.
 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00559-01-5

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