States / New York / A 916

A 916 Enacted

Relates to guardians and health care agents

Introduced
In Committee
Floor
Crossed Over
Passed
Enacted

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.

Chamber
House
Introduced
Jan 8, 2025
Last action
Feb 14, 2025 — SIGNED CHAP.29
Session
2025-2026
Momentum
81 · Very high