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S 4348: Requires hospitals to provide medical forms in Punjabi.
What S 4348 does, verified January 9, 2026
The bill requires hospitals to provide patients with medical forms and printed information in Punjabi upon request. This includes any forms or information that are given to patients or required to be signed by them. The hospitals must translate these forms into Punjabi to ensure that patients who are proficient in the language can understand the information. The requirement takes effect 90 days after the bill becomes a law.
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5GovernorPending
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Last action: REFERRED TO HEALTH (2026-01-07)Alert me
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | REFERRED TO HEALTH |
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Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 4, 2025 · 180 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4348 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi- tals to provide forms in Punjabi The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 2808-g to read as follows: 3 § 2808-g. Forms printed in Punjabi. Every hospital shall, at a 4 patient's request, provide any medical form or printed information which 5 is given to a patient or required to be signed by such patient trans- 6 lated into Punjabi. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 8 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05630-01-5
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