S259 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Requires cultural awareness and competence training for medical professionals, including two hours of course work or training encompassing minority healthcare issues; provides an exemption for certain individuals; requires hospitals and facilities to request documentation of the completion of training from employees and prospective employees.
- Title
- Requires cultural awareness and competence training for medical professionals
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2024-05-14
- In committee
- Higher Education
- Introduced
- 2022-12-30
- Same as
- A548
- Law section
- Education Law
Sponsors
- José M. Serrano State Senator, District 29
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Higher Education NY State Assembly committee
- Higher Education NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A548 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Higher Education, 2024-05-07 First reading
- Higher Education, 2023-03-14 First reading