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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

A 387: Requires general hospitals to provide language assistance services

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

A 387 is a bill introduced in the New York House on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Requires general hospitals to provide language assistance services. Primary sponsor: Nily Rozic (Democratic). It lists 21 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (December 10, 2025): SIGNED CHAP.614.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Requires general hospitals to provide language assistance services; requires general hospitals to develop a language assistance program to ensure meaningful access to the general hospital's services and reasonable accommodation for all patients who require language assistance.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 15 · Democratic/Independence/Working Families 1 · Democratic/Working Families 3 · Republican 1 · Republican/Conservative 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Nily RozicPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse25
Ed BraunsteinCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse26
Chris BurdickCo-sponsorDemocratic/Independence/Working FamiliesHouse93
Noah BurroughsCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse18
William ColtonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse47
Catalina CruzCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse39
Maritza DavilaCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse53
Joe DeStefanoCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeHouse3
Harvey EpsteinCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Rodneyse Bichotte HermelynCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse42
Andrew HevesiCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse28
Ron KimCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse40
Grace LeeCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse65
Dave McDonoughCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse14
Amy PaulinCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse88
Nader SayeghCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse90
Tommy John SchiavoniCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse1
Rebecca SeawrightCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse76
MaryJane ShimskyCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse92
Jo Anne SimonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse52
Al TaylorCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse71
David WeprinCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse24

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. SIGNED CHAP.614
  2. DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
  3. RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
  4. PASSED SENATE
  5. 3RD READING CAL.1266
  6. SUBSTITUTED FOR S6288B
  7. REFERRED TO HEALTH
  8. DELIVERED TO SENATE
  9. PASSED ASSEMBLY
  10. AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 387B
  11. ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.61
  12. REPORTED

Showing 12 most recent of 15 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source