Bill Commons

NY S 788

enacted

Relates to guardians and health care agents

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 788 pass?

Yes. NY S 788 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-02-11): SUBSTITUTED BY A916

What is NY S 788 about?

Includes guardians of the principal as a person who may commence certain special proceedings; provides that if a hospital can with reasonable efforts ascertain the identity of the parents or guardian of an emancipated minor patient and obtain such parent's or guardian's contact information, the hospital shall notify such persons, and document such notification in the patient's medical record, prior to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.

Who sponsors NY S 788?

Gustavo Rivera is the primary sponsor of NY S 788.

Description

Includes guardians of the principal as a person who may commence certain special proceedings; provides that if a hospital can with reasonable efforts ascertain the identity of the parents or guardian of an emancipated minor patient and obtain such parent's or guardian's contact information, the hospital shall notify such persons, and document such notification in the patient's medical record, prior to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.

Introduced
—
Latest action
2025-02-11 — SUBSTITUTED BY A916
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Gustavo Riveraprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-02-11

    SUBSTITUTED BY A916

  2. 2025-01-13

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.62

  3. 2025-01-08

    REFERRED TO RULES

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Rules Vote

    2025-01-13 · pass · 15-6

    Member-level votes (21)
    • Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.: yes
    • Jamaal Bailey: yes
    • Leroy Comrie: yes
    • Nathalia Fernandez: yes
    • Michael Gianaris: yes
    • Pete Harckham: yes
    • Brad Hoylman-Sigal: yes
    • Liz Krueger: yes
    • John Liu: yes
    • Shelley Mayer: yes
    • Zellnor Myrie: yes
    • Kevin S. Parker: yes
    • Andrea Stewart-Cousins: yes
    • Pamela Helming: yes
    • Luis R. Sepúlveda: yes
    • Patrick M. Gallivan: no
    • Joseph A. Griffo: no
    • Andrew J. Lanza: no
    • Thomas F. O'Mara: no
    • Robert Ortt: no
    • Dan Stec: no

Related bills

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S788?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 788. 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.