New York Assembly Bill 8081

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15)
Status: Introduced on April 24 2025 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2026-01-07 - referred to health
Pending: Assembly Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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.

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.

Asm. Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas [D]	Asm. Deborah Glick [D]	Asm. Maryjane Shimsky [D]	Asm. Dana Levenberg [D]
Asm. Emily Gallagher [D]	Asm. John Zaccaro [D]	Asm. Grace Lee [D]	Asm. Stefani Zinerman [D]
Asm. Sarahana Shrestha [D]	Asm. Karines Reyes [D]	Asm. Steven Raga [D]	Asm. Harvey Epstein [D]
Asm. Jennifer Lunsford [D]	Asm. Andrew Hevesi [D]	Asm. Judy Griffin [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-01-07	Assembly	referred to health
2025-04-24	Assembly	referred to health

S01855 (Same As) 2026-03-09 - referred to health

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A8081
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08081&term=2025&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A08081