Bill Texts: NY A01236 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly
Bill Title: 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 transactions of frequently used forms essential to a patient's care and treatment be available in all of the hospital's primary language; 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A01236 Detail]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A01236 Detail]
Bill Drafts
Revision | Date | Format | Source | View |
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Introduced | 2017-01-11 | HTML/Text | Link | View |
Amendments
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No bill amendments currently on file for New York A01236 |
Supplemental Documents
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No supplemental documents for New York A01236 currently on file. |