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S 3510: Requires hospitals and healthcare facilities which provide emergency services to develop plans to provide reasonable accommodations to house a patient's service animal until such time as they can be picked up.
What S 3510 does, verified January 8, 2026
The proposed law requires healthcare facilities that provide emergency services to develop plans for reasonable accommodations for service animals. These facilities must provide a space or area to house service animals until family members, designated persons, or service animal agencies can collect them or reunite them with patients. The law defines a service animal as any animal trained or trained by a qualified person to aid or guide a person with a disability. The law takes effect 120 days after it becomes a law.
Bill journey
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2In CommitteePending
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4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS (2026-01-07)Alert me
Quick answers about S 3510
- What is the current status of S 3510?
- As of January 8, 2026, S 3510 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 INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS".
- Did S 3510 pass?
- Not yet. S 3510 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote S 3510, and where is it now?
- S 3510 was authored by Sen. Alexis Weik. Its committee of record is Senate Investigation & Government Operations.
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS |
| Jan. 28, 2025 | REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 28, 2025 · 311 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3510 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to requiring certain healthcare facilities to develop plans to provide reasonable accommo- dations for service animals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 47-b of the civil rights law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 8 to read as follows: 3 8. Each hospital or healthcare facility that provides emergency 4 services shall develop a plan to provide a reasonable accommodation for 5 service animals brought into such facility during an emergency or any 6 time that a patient needs medical treatment and such service animal 7 cannot be with such patient. Such reasonable accommodation shall 8 include, but not be limited to, a space or area to house such service 9 animal until such time as a family member, designated person, or service 10 animal agency can collect such service animal or such service animal can 11 be reunited with the patient at the hospital or healthcare facility. For 12 purposes of this subdivision, "service animal" shall mean any animal 13 that has been partnered with a person who has a disability and has been 14 trained or is being trained, by a qualified person, to aid or guide a 15 person with a disability. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 17 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07896-01-5
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