S 719: Requires all medical facilities to have immediate access to every single-occupancy bathroom where a patient could be in an emergency.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 719 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RHOADS -- 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 all medical facilities to be able to access every single-occupancy bath- room where a patient could be in an emergency 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 2832 to read as follows: 3 § 2832. Emergency access in all medical facilities. Every medical 4 facility shall have immediate access to every single-occupancy bathroom 5 in such facility where a patient could be in an emergency. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02646-01-5