S5909 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Establishes a three-year pilot hospital medical debt relief program to provide hospital medical debt relief to eligible residents of the state utilizing a not-for-profit organization to identify, acquire and cancel medical debt of such eligible residents directly from health care providers in the state.
- Title
- Establishes a pilot hospital medical debt relief program
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2024-01-22
- In committee
- Finance
- Introduced
- 2023-03-22
- Active version
- S5909B
- Same as
- A6096
- Law section
- Public Health Law
Sponsors
- Gustavo Rivera State Senator, District 33
Co-sponsors
- Andrew Gounardes State Senator, District 26
Heard in committee
- Health NY State Assembly committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
- Health NY State Senate committee
- Rules NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A6096 (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.
- Health, 2024-01-22 Referred to committee; referred to Finance
- Rules, 2023-06-08
- Rules, 2023-06-08 Third reading
- Health, 2023-05-23 Referred to committee; referred to Finance