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A 6830: Relates to disputes between a surrogate and a hospital or individual health care provider; cites when the requirement of a provider to provide life-sustaining treatment following a surrogate's directive does not apply.
What A 6830 does, verified January 8, 2026
The bill aims to protect the rights of surrogates in New York by ensuring that hospitals and healthcare providers comply with their decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment. A surrogate's decision will be respected, even if the healthcare provider disagrees, unless the patient's death is imminent and cannot be avoided. In such cases, the healthcare provider must provide the treatment until the patient is transferred to another willing provider or the decision is reviewed by a court. However, if the patient has made a prior decision regarding life-sustaining treatment, the healthcare provider is not required to comply with the surrogate's decision. The surrogate may still request ethics committee review or judicial review in certain circumstances. The bill will take effect immediately.
Bill journey
1IntroducedCurrent
2In CommitteePending
3First Chamber FloorPending
4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to health (2026-01-07)Alert me
Quick answers about A 6830
- What is the current status of A 6830?
- As of January 8, 2026, A 6830 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on January 7, 2026, was "referred to health".
- Did A 6830 pass?
- Not yet. A 6830 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote A 6830, and where is it now?
- A 6830 was authored by Asm. James Pretlow. Its committee of record is Assembly Health.
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to health |
| Mar. 14, 2025 | referred to health |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, March 14, 2025 · 331 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6830 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to disputes between a surrogate and a hospital or individual health care provider 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 2994-f of the public health law, 2 as amended by chapter 708 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or subdivision one 5 of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-four-q of this article, if a 6 surrogate directs the provision of life-sustaining treatment, the denial 7 of which in reasonable medical judgment would be likely to result in the 8 death of the patient, a hospital or individual health care provider that 9 does not wish to provide such treatment shall nonetheless comply with 10 the surrogate's decision pending either transfer of the patient to a 11 willing hospital or individual health care provider, or judicial review 12 in accordance with section twenty-nine hundred ninety-four-r of this 13 article. This requirement shall not apply when the hospital or individ- 14 ual health care provider is carrying out a patient's decision made 15 pursuant to subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision three of 16 section twenty-nine hundred ninety-four-d of this article; provided that 17 the surrogate in such instance retains the right to request ethics 18 committee review of the case pursuant to section twenty-nine hundred 19 ninety-four-m of this article, or judicial review in accordance with 20 section twenty-nine hundred ninety-four-r of this article. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01529-01-5
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