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NY A 661

in committee

Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services to all patients requiring such services; provides, that if the hospital is at ninety percent capacity or greater, such hospital shall connect the patient to an alternative facility within such patient's network to access such medically supervised detoxification services without any increased risk to the health or life of the patient.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO HEALTH
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Phil Steckprimary
  • Steven Otiscosponsor
  • Karines Reyescosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-08

    REFERRED TO HEALTH

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO HEALTH

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/A661?summary=&detail=

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