Senate Bill S753

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of medical debt

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S753 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A427
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §380-a, Gen Bus L (as proposed in S.8373-A & A.9438)

2025-S753 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-S753 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S753 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    753
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (v) of section 380-a of  the  general  business
 law,  as  amended  by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general
 business law and the public health law relating  to  the  definition  of
 medical  debt, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8373-A and A.
 9438, is amended to read as follows:
   (v) The term "medical debt" means any obligation or alleged obligation
 of a consumer to pay any amount whatsoever related  to  the  receipt  of
 health  care  services,  products,  or devices provided TO A PERSON by a
 hospital licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law, a
 health care professional authorized under title eight of  the  education
 law,  or  an  ambulance  service  certified  under article thirty of the
 public health law. Medical debt does not include debt charged to a cred-
 it card unless the credit card is issued under an open-ended or  closed-
 ended plan offered specifically for the payment of health care services,
 products, or devices provided to a person.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending  the  general  business
 law  and  the  public  health  law relating to the definition of medical
 debt, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8373-A  and  A.  9438,
 takes effect.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02716-01-5

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