Bill Text: NY S07943 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-04 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07943 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07943-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7943

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 4, 2024
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        Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- 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  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