What it is
- What changed
- Proposed legislation would amend NY Public Health Law to strengthen identification, documentation, counseling, referral, reporting, and demonstration-project rules for palliative and hospice access.
- Why it matters
- If enacted, facilities would face clearer serious-illness referral workflows and families could get earlier palliative or hospice conversations.
- Who it touches
- Family caregivers, Care providers and plans, People receiving careserious illness patients, family caregivers, hospice patients, hospitals, nursing homes
- What it does
- Requires something of providers, companies or agencies
- Identifiers
- S 9621 (session 2025) · A 10316 (session 2025)
Sources
Last reviewed Jun 18, 2026. This is information, not legal advice; check the source for the current text.