S 788 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relates to guardians and health care agents

Summary
Includes guardians of the principal as a person who may commence certain special proceedings; provides that if a hospital can with reasonable efforts ascertain the identity of the parents or guardian of an emancipated minor patient and obtain such parent's or guardian's contact information, the hospital shall notify such persons, and document such notification in the patient's medical record, prior to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.
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Jan 2025
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Introduced Jan 8, 2025 Last action Feb 11, 2025
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Gustavo Rivera
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