A5489 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Establishes the mandatory reporting by certain professional or official persons who come into contact with mentally or physically incapacitated persons who were abused including residents of assisted living and adult care facilities who may be abused, mistreated or neglected; provides reporting procedures and grants immunity for such reporting; provides criminal and civil penalties.
- Title
- Establishes mandatory reporting of alleged incidents of abuse, mistreatment or neglect of residents in assisted living and adult care facilities
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-07
- In committee
- Health
- Introduced
- 2025-02-14
- Law section
- Social Services Law
Sponsors
- Larinda C. Hooks Assembly Member, District 35
Co-sponsors
- Al Taylor Assembly Member, District 71
- Alicia Hyndman Assembly Member, District 29
- Brian Cunningham Assembly Member, District 43
- Charles D. Fall Assembly Member, District 61
- Jessica González-Rojas Assembly Member, District 34
- John Zaccaro, Jr. Assembly Member, District 80
- Yudelka Tapia Assembly Member, District 86
Heard in committee
- Health NY State Assembly committee