All Roll Calls
Yes: 136 • No: 71
New YorkS 49142025-2026 Regular SessionSenate
Protects individuals who provide or receive legally protected health activity from criminal or civil liability or professional sanctions imposed by jurisdictions outside the state; repealer
Sponsored By: Brad Hoylman-Sigal (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
CHILDREN AND FAMILIESCODES
Personalized for You
How does this bill affect your finances?
Personalize government policy and PRIA will tell you what this bill means for your household, plus every other piece of legislation we track. PRIA reads each provision against your financial profile to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.
Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
11 provisions identified: 9 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
New York courts protect covered care
New York law governs cases heard in New York about protected health activity, despite conflicting laws or legal rules. Courts cannot admit evidence of someone's protected activity to show wrongdoing merely because they took part. An exception covers injury or contract claims brought by the patient or their legal representative. Those claims must also be actionable in an equivalent or similar way under New York law.
Patients and providers gain arrest protections
New York police cannot arrest anyone for health activity that meets the law's protected-activity definition, wherever it occurred. Unless federal law requires otherwise, the governor cannot recognize an extradition demand based partly or entirely on protected activity. An exception requires the demanding state to allege in writing that the accused was physically there and later fled. The law also repeals Criminal Procedure Law sections 570.19 and 140.10(3-b). The supplied text does not explain the separate effects of those repeals.
People targeted over care can sue
People can bring unlawful-interference claims when protected health activity leads to lawsuits, criminal charges, or an action alleging that activity. The covered proceedings include courts in the United States and its territories. Successful claimants can recover compensation, costs, lawyers' fees, and expert-witness fees. Up to three times compensatory damages requires proof that the action was pursued to harass, intimidate, punish, or maliciously block protected rights. Claims must be filed within six years after they arise.
Health professionals gain license discipline protections
New York cannot deny professional licensing solely because another jurisdiction disciplined an applicant for protected health activity. Denial remains allowed if that conduct counts as professional misconduct in New York. Protected activity within a practitioner's lawful work scope cannot alone justify misconduct findings, license loss, or other discipline. Education and medical conduct officials cannot investigate beyond preliminary review or bring charges based solely on that activity. Medical conduct officials also cannot refer protected health activity to law enforcement; other grounds for investigation or discipline remain available.
Protections cover patients and care helpers
Protected activity includes reproductive and gender-affirming care, telehealth, self-care, counseling, referrals, prescriptions, and related help. The activity must follow New York law. Receiving or seeking care is covered regardless of the patient's location. Providers must be New York-licensed and physically in New York; people helping or encouraging care must also be physically in New York. Insurance coverage is covered when offered or attempted by entities located, headquartered, or incorporated in New York. The definitions exclude specified surgeries on minors with variations in sex characteristics when the patient did not seek and initiate them.
More care privacy, stricter disclosure rules
Covered New York people and entities generally cannot share protected-care information in response to outside civil, criminal, or regulatory requests. Requests need a sworn statement denying a purpose of imposing legal consequences for protected activity, or identifying a legal exception. Recipients must notify the Attorney General within 72 hours, state whether they plan to comply, and send related materials. Before disclosure, they must reasonably try to notify affected people at least 30 days ahead, unless a court orders otherwise. They must also wait at least 30 days after notifying the Attorney General. Exceptions include valid federal court orders, specified federal reports and audits, public-health disclosures, written-request disclosures, and investigations of conduct unlawful in New York. Specified knowing or reckless violations carry $15,000 penalties per violation. The Attorney General can seek injunctions and other remedies; eligible New York plaintiffs can sue after advance notice to that office. Some civil actions have a one-year deadline from receipt of the request; prevailing parties can recover costs and reasonable legal fees. False-statement damages and penalty claims generally have a six-year deadline, and required compliance delays do not count as contempt.
Lawyers gain protections for care advice
New York cannot remove or discipline its licensed lawyers solely for covered reproductive or gender-affirming care advice or representation. This includes advising clients or prospective clients about care that creates liability under another jurisdiction's laws. The protection includes covered telehealth abortion-medication matters involving out-of-state patients. Lawyers must still follow New York law and professional conduct rules.
Patients gain shields against outside subpoenas
New York courts, clerks, and lawyers generally cannot issue subpoenas for outside proceedings about protected health activity. Courts also cannot order help with depositions for those proceedings. Exceptions cover injury or contract cases brought by patients or their legal representatives and similarly actionable under New York law. The subpoena exception requires the patient's express consent, unless injury or death makes consent infeasible. Subpoenas and deposition petitions must include the required sworn statement about the proceeding and any exception.
Providers gain protection against insurance retaliation
Insurers issuing or renewing malpractice or professional liability coverage cannot penalize New York-licensed providers solely for protected health activity. This includes prescribing abortion medication by telehealth to patients outside New York. Insurers can still take action for other reasons.
Government limits help with outside investigations
New York government workers, agencies, and their agents generally cannot help outside investigations seeking consequences for protected health activity. This applies wherever the protected activity occurred. Narrow exceptions allow strictly necessary public-health sharing, certain valid subpoenas or warrants, federal reporting, and the investigation subject's written request. Sharing identifying information for the specified public-health purposes requires the person's consent. The law also bars specified medical-procedure information sharing in investigations of reproductive or gender-affirming care rendered in violation of New York law. It both enacts cooperation restrictions and repeals the earlier Executive Law section 837-x; the supplied text does not explain the repeal's separate effect.
False discovery statements trigger $15,000 penalties
Submitting a false sworn statement for an outside subpoena or deposition request subjects the filer to New York court authority. Courts must impose $15,000 per violation when the false statement was intentional, knowing, willful, or reckless. The Attorney General can sue for damages or penalties. That action must start within six years of the relevant filing or subpoena issuance date.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Andrew Gounardes
Democratic • Senate
Cordell Cleare
Democratic • Senate
Gustavo Rivera
Democratic • Senate
Jabari Brisport
Democratic • Senate
Jeremy Cooney
Democratic • Senate
John Liu
Democratic • Senate
José M. Serrano
Democratic • Senate
Julia Salazar
Democratic • Senate
Kristen Gonzalez
Democratic • Senate
Leroy Comrie
Democratic • Senate
Liz Krueger
Democratic • Senate
Michelle Hinchey
Democratic • Senate
Nathalia Fernandez
Democratic • Senate
Patricia Fahy
Democratic • Senate
Pete Harckham
Democratic • Senate
Samra Brouk
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 6/16/2025
Assembly floor vote
Yes: 94 • No: 50
Senate vote • 5/22/2025
FLOOR Vote
Yes: 37 • No: 20
committee vote • 5/13/2025
Children And Families Committee Vote
Yes: 5 • No: 1
Actions Timeline
APPROVAL MEMO.71
12/19/2025SenateSIGNED CHAP.694
12/19/2025SenateDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
12/8/2025SenateRETURNED TO SENATE
6/16/2025HousePASSED ASSEMBLY
6/16/2025HouseORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.321
5/29/2025HouseSUBSTITUTED FOR A5480C
5/29/2025HouseREFERRED TO CODES
5/22/2025HouseDELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
5/22/2025SenatePASSED SENATE
5/22/2025SenateAMENDED ON THIRD READING 4914B
5/19/2025SenateADVANCED TO THIRD READING
5/15/2025Senate2ND REPORT CAL.
5/14/2025Senate1ST REPORT CAL.1005
5/13/2025SenatePRINT NUMBER 4914A
5/5/2025SenateAMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
5/5/2025SenateREFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
2/14/2025Senate
Bill Text
Amendment B
5/19/2025
Amendment A
5/5/2025
Original
2/14/2025
Related Bills
S 10643, Relates to labor peace agreements and the cannabis industry wage board; repealer
S 9051, Prohibits artificial intelligence companions from using features which are considered unsafe for minors
A 5175, Requires certain security features and warning labels on baby monitors
A 11443, Relates to commercial food fish licenses
A 10343, Relates to fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings; extending effectiveness
A 10052, Extends the effectiveness of the authority of the town of Red Hook to impose real estate transfer taxes and to deposit revenue from such taxes into a community preservation fund