Bill Commons

NY S 3898

in committee

Requires pediatric care providers to screen every child beginning at the age of twelve months for autism spectrum disorders

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did NY S 3898 pass?

Not yet. NY S 3898 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-01-07): REFERRED TO HEALTH

What is NY S 3898 about?

Directs the commissioner of health and commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to jointly promulgate rules and regulations requiring pediatric health care providers to screen children beginning at the age of 12 months for autism spectrum disorders during each wellness and preventative care examination and to conduct such screening annually until such child reaches age six, and thereafter at eleven and fourteen years of age.

Who sponsors NY S 3898?

Kevin S. Parker is the primary sponsor of NY S 3898.

Description

Directs the commissioner of health and commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to jointly promulgate rules and regulations requiring pediatric health care providers to screen children beginning at the age of 12 months for autism spectrum disorders during each wellness and preventative care examination and to conduct such screening annually until such child reaches age six, and thereafter at eleven and fourteen years of age.

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

Sponsors

  • Kevin S. Parkerprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO HEALTH

    referral-committee

  2. 2025-05-20

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

    referral-committee

  3. 2025-01-30

    REFERRED TO HEALTH

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Health Vote

    2025-05-20 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (14)
    • Samra Brouk: yes
    • Kristen Gonzalez: yes
    • Brad Hoylman-Sigal: yes
    • Robert Jackson: yes
    • Zellnor Myrie: yes
    • Kevin S. Parker: yes
    • Gustavo Rivera: yes
    • Christopher Ryan: yes
    • Lea Webb: yes
    • Jake Ashby: yes
    • Patrick M. Gallivan: yes
    • Steve Rhoads: yes
    • Dan Stec: yes
    • Jack M. Martins: excused

Related bills

  • Prior session: S 2875not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 2832not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 3404not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 6201not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 2432not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 3741not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 3304not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 4741not in this corpus
  • Companion bill: A 7204

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S3898?summary=&detail=

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:28:30.722574Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=NY&identifier=S 3898. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.