Bill Text: NY S00719 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 719

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires all medical facilities to have immediate access to every single-occupancy bathroom where a patient could be in an emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S00719 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00719-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           719

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  requiring  all
          medical  facilities  to be able to access every single-occupancy bath-
          room where a patient could be in an emergency

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2832 to read as follows:
     3    § 2832. Emergency access in  all  medical  facilities.  Every  medical
     4  facility  shall have immediate access to every single-occupancy bathroom
     5  in such facility where a patient could be in an emergency.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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