Bill Text: NY S02903 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires hospitals to provide medical forms in Punjabi.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02903 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S02903-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2903 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 hospi- tals to provide forms in Punjabi 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 2808-f to read as follows: 3 § 2808-f. Forms printed in Punjabi. Every hospital shall, at a 4 patient's request, provide any medical form or printed information which 5 is given to a patient or required to be signed by such patient trans- 6 lated into Punjabi. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 8 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04653-01-3