S 753: Relates to the definition of medical debt; clarifies that such debt must be related to health care services, products or devices provided to a person by a hospital.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 753 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the definition of medical debt The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (v) of section 380-a of the general business 2 law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general 3 business law and the public health law relating to the definition of 4 medical debt, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8373-A and A. 5 9438, is amended to read as follows: 6 (v) The term "medical debt" means any obligation or alleged obligation 7 of a consumer to pay any amount whatsoever related to the receipt of 8 health care services, products, or devices provided to a person by a 9 hospital licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law, a 10 health care professional authorized under title eight of the education 11 law, or an ambulance service certified under article thirty of the 12 public health law. Medical debt does not include debt charged to a cred- 13 it card unless the credit card is issued under an open-ended or closed- 14 ended plan offered specifically for the payment of health care services, 15 products, or devices provided to a person. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 17 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general business 18 law and the public health law relating to the definition of medical 19 debt, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8373-A and A. 9438, 20 takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02716-01-5