New York Assembly Bill 387

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-08 - referred to health
Pending: Assembly Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires hospitals to provide language assistance services to a patient or a patient's assistant for communication of clinical and other information, including but not limited to health care, billing and making appointments, to ensure effective communication; provides that such interpreter may be a qualified interpreter, volunteer or medical personnel at such hospital; provides for such services to be available at all locations during all times that patient care is available; provides that translations of frequently used forms essential to a patient's care and treatment be available in all of the hospital's primary languages; provides for training of those providing interpretation services; requires the hospital to submit to the commissioner an annual report assessing compliance; defines primary language and patient visits.

Requires hospitals to provide language assistance services to a patient or a patient's assistant for communication of clinical and other information, including but not limited to health care, billing and making appointments, to ensure effective communication; provides that such interpreter may be a qualified interpreter, volunteer or medical personnel at such hospital; provides for such services to be available at all locations during all times that patient care is available; provides that translations of frequently used forms essential to a patient's care and treatment be available in all of the hospital's primary languages; provides for training of those providing interpretation services; requires the hospital to submit to the commissioner an annual report assessing compliance; defines primary language and patient visits.

Asm. Nily Rozic [D]	Asm. Jo Simon [D]	Asm. David Weprin [D]	Asm. Rebecca Seawright [D]
Asm. Andrew Hevesi [D]	Asm. Alfred Taylor [D]	Asm. Tommy Schiavoni [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-08	Assembly	referred to health

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A387
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A00387&term=2025&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A00387