Bill Text: NY A08961 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8961

Bill Title: Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal and in a format that allows patients to save records to their own device.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - print number 8961a [A08961 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08961-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8961--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to the release of
          medical records in an electronic format

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of section 18 of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
     3    (j) Subject to the provisions of subdivision three  of  this  section,
     4  upon  the request of a qualified person, all medical records required to
     5  be released pursuant to this section shall be made available  to  quali-
     6  fied  persons  in  an  electronic  format  through a web portal and such
     7  records shall be provided in a format that allows qualified  persons  to
     8  save the records to their own device.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13171-03-4