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NY A 661

in committee

Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

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Did NY A 661 pass?

Not yet. NY A 661 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-01-07): REFERRED TO HEALTH

What is NY A 661 about?

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.

Who sponsors NY A 661?

Phil Steck is the primary sponsor of NY A 661, joined by 2 cosponsors.

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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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

Newest first

  1. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO HEALTH

    referral-committee

  2. 2025-01-08

    REFERRED TO HEALTH

    referral-committee

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Related bills

  • Prior session: A 7376not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 4316not in this corpus
  • Companion bill: S 1987

Official source

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

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