Bill Text: NY A08236 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires general hospitals and nursing homes to offer free notarial services to patients; requires an employee of such general hospital or nursing home who is a notary public to be present from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on business days.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A08236 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08236-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8236

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. McMAHON, SEAWRIGHT, L. ROSENTHAL, STIRPE, DICK-
          ENS, LAVINE, McDONOUGH, SHIMSKY, DeSTEFANO -- read once  and  referred
          to the Committee on Health

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring general
          hospitals and  nursing  homes  to  offer  free  notarial  services  to
          patients

          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  2805-aa to read as follows:
     3    §  2805-aa. Hospital and nursing home notarial services. Every general
     4  hospital and nursing home shall have an  employee  present,  from  eight
     5  o'clock  a.m.  to  six  o'clock  p.m.  each  business  day, who has been
     6  appointed as a notary public pursuant to section one hundred  thirty  of
     7  the  executive  law.  Such  employee  shall  offer  notarial services to
     8  patients of such general hospital or nursing home at no charge  to  such
     9  patients. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a gener-
    10  al  hospital  or  nursing  home  from offering free notarial services to
    11  patients outside the hours of eight o'clock a.m. to six o'clock p.m., or
    12  on non-business days.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11916-02-3