S1855 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Strengthens protections for patients regarding sexual misconduct by medical providers; requires medical expert consultants involved in investigations disclose conflicts of interest and to not be under investigation, on warning, or on probation; requires a zero-tolerance policy to be adopted and training to be provided on sexual misconduct by the board for professional misconduct; includes provisions related to the right to have a chaperone; includes sexual misconduct in the definition of professional misconduct.
- Title
- Strengthens protections for patients regarding sexual misconduct by medical providers
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-03-09
- In committee
- Health
- Introduced
- 2025-01-14
- Same as
- A8081
- Law section
- Public Health Law
Sponsors
- Gustavo Rivera State Senator, District 33
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
Same as
- A8081 (2025-26 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.