S788 (2025-26 session)

NY State bill

Includes guardians of the principal as a person who may commence certain special proceedings; provides that if a hospital can with reasonable efforts ascertain the identity of the parents or guardian of an emancipated minor patient and obtain such parent's or guardian's contact information, the hospital shall notify such persons, and document such notification in the patient's medical record, prior to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.

Title
Relates to guardians and health care agents
Type
New York State Senate bill
Session
2025-26 session
Status
Senate Floor Calendar
Latest action date
2025-01-13
Introduced
2025-01-06
Same as
A916
Substituted by
A916
Law section
Public Health Law

Sponsors

Heard in committee

Same as

Substituted by

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.

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