S4566 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Relates to the rights of patients to receive medical information in an understandable format; provides that such information and documents shall avoid the use of medical terminology and instead use words with common and everyday meanings to facilitate understandability.
- Title
- Relates to the rights of patients to receive medical information in an understandable format
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-07
- In committee
- Health
- Introduced
- 2025-02-07
- Law section
- Public Health Law
Sponsors
- Jamaal T. Bailey State Senator, District 36
Heard in committee
- Health NY State Senate committee