S 6288 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Requires general hospitals to provide language assistance services

Summary

Requires general hospitals to provide language assistance services; requires general hospitals to develop a language assistance program to ensure meaningful access to the general hospital's services and reasonable accommodation for all patients who require language assistance.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Last action Jun 10, 2025

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What changed between versions

S6288A → S6288B · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill version (S6288-B) reorders the legislative history section to reflect that the bill was discharged from committee and amended, rather than remaining in committee. The core language assistance requirements for hospitals remain substantively unchanged, though the numbering of specific requirements shifted due to the reordering.

TECHNICAL

The bill's committee status was updated to show it was discharged and amended, rather than remaining in committee.

The numbering of language assistance requirements was reorganized (items 6-11 were renumbered as 5-11) due to the insertion of a new signage requirement at the top of the list.

Minor formatting adjustments were made to text spacing and line breaks throughout the document.

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Committee

Amendments

Apr 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 6288B

upper

Apr 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH

upper

Mar 25, 2025

Upper · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 6288A

upper

Mar 25, 2025

Upper · Passed

AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO HEALTH

upper

1 primary · 1 co-sponsor