A 5715: Requires nursing homes and certain facilities to provide health care proxy forms to patients at or prior to admission to such facilities; requires the facility to file such health care proxies with the department of health.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5715 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring nursing homes and certain facilities to provide health care proxy forms to patients at or prior to admission to such facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2803-c of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph s to read as follows: 3 s. Every patient shall have the right to choose a health care proxy. 4 Each patient shall be provided with a health care proxy form and shall 5 be provided the opportunity to file such form with the department. 6 § 2. Section 2803-c of the public health law is amended by adding a 7 new subdivision 7 to read as follows: 8 7. Each facility shall provide a health care proxy form to each 9 patient at or prior to the time of admission to the facility. If the 10 patient does not already have a health care proxy registered with the 11 department, the facility shall file such health care proxy with the 12 department on behalf of the patient. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02289-01-5