New York Public Health Law

Every section of the New York Public Health Law, in order — 1,798 sections. Source: NY Senate Open Legislation, current through November 4, 2026.

• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2587 — Program approval
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2588 — Reimbursement
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2589 — Rules and regulations
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2590 — Emergency nutrition aid program for pregnant women and adolescents; establishment
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2591 — Eligibility
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2592 — Rules and regulations
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2595 — Football programs; information on concussions
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2599-a — Childhood obesity prevention program; establishment
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2599-aa — Policy and purpose
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2599-b — Program development
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2599-bb — Abortion
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2599-BB-1 — Reproductive freedom and equity grant program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2599-c — School-based childhood obesity prevention and physical activity programs
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2599-cc — Gestational surrogacy
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2599-d — Powers of commissioner
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2600 — Helen Hayes Hospital; hospital care and treatment
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2601 — Helen Hayes Hospital; functions; powers and duties
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2602 — Helen Hayes Hospital; charges for service and reimbursement
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2630 — Purpose
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2631 — Board of visitors; special provision
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2632 — Admission to home
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2633 — Acquisition and application of property
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2634 — Designation of the "New York State Women Veterans Memorial Community Room"
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2635 — Designation of the "Arnold Swanson Community Room"
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2700 — Bureau of chronic disease and geriatrics established
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2701 — Purpose and functions
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2702 — Powers and duties
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2705 — Legislative findings and declarations
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2706 — Osteoporosis prevention and education program established
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2710 — Legislative findings and purposes
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2711 — New York state kidney disease institute; organization
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2712 — Functions, powers and duties
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2720 — Legislative declaration
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2721 — Mary Lasker Heart and Hypertension Institute; organization
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2722 — Commissioner; functions, powers and duties
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2723 — Centers for treatment of hypertension; establishment by commissioner
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2724 — Commissioner; additional functions, powers and duties
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2730 — Declaration of policy
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2731 — Birth defects institute
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2732 — Commissioner; functions, powers and duties
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2733 — Reporting of birth defects; confidentiality of information
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2740 — Traumatic brain injury program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2741 — Definitions
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2742 — Functions, powers and duties of the department
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2743 — Funding of traumatic brain injury services
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2744 — The traumatic brain injury services coordinating council
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2747 — Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treatment
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2750 — Legislative findings and purpose
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2751 — New York state burns care institute; organization
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2752 — Functions, powers and duties
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2760 — Advisory panel established
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2761 — Function, powers and duties
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2775 — The acquired immune deficiency syndrome institute
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2776 — Powers and duties
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2777 — Research council
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2778 — Advisory council
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2779 — Reports by the commissioner
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2780 — Definitions
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2781 — HIV related testing
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2781-a — Required offering of HIV related testing
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2782 — Confidentiality and disclosure
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2783 — Penalties; immunities
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2784 — Applicability to insurance institutions and insurance support organizations
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2785 — Court authorization for disclosure of confidential HIV related information
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2785-a — Court order for HIV related testing in certain cases
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2786 — Rules and regulations; forms; report
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2787 — Separability
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2795 — New York state adult cystic fibrosis assistance program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2796 — Special programs with respect to diabetes
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2797 — Tick-borne disease institute
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2798 — Powers and duties
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2799-o — New York wellness works; program established
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2799-q — Participation in New York wellness works
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2799-r — Program evaluations and recommendations; reports and statewide conference on best practices
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2800 — Declaration of policy and statement of purpose
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2801 — Definitions
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2801-a — Establishment or incorporation of hospitals
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2801-b — Improper practices in hospital staff appointments and extension of professional privileges prohibited
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2801-c — Injunctions
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2801-d — Private actions by patients of residential health care facilities
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2801-e — Voluntary residential health care facility rightsizing demonstration program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2801-f — Residential health care facility quality incentive payment program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2801-g — Community forum on hospital closure
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2801-h — Personal caregiving and compassionate caregiving visitors to nursing home residents during declared local or state health emergencies
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2802 — Approval of construction
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2802-a — Transitional care unit demonstration program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2802-b — Health equity impact assessments
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803 — Commissioner and council; powers and duties
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-a — Authority to contract
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-aa — Nursing home infection control competency audit
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-aa — Sickle cell disease information distribution
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-b — Uniform reports and accounting systems for hospital costs
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-bb — Provision of language assistance
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-c — Rights of patients in certain medical facilities
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-C-1 — Rights of patients in certain medical facilities; long-term care ombudsman program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-C-2 — Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and people living with HIV long-term care facility residents' bill of rights
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-d — Reporting abuses of persons receiving care or services in residential health care facilities
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-e — Reporting incidents of possible professional misconduct
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-e — Residential health care facilities; return and redistribution of unused medication
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-f — Respite projects
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-g — Board of visitors in county owned residential health care facility
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-h — Health related facility; pet therapy programs
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-i — General hospital inpatient discharge review program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-j — Information for maternity patients
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-j — Nursing home nurse aide registry
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-k — In-patient nasogastric feeding procedures
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-l — Community service plans
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-m — Discharge of hospital patients to adult homes
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-n — Hospital care for maternity patients
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-o — Hospital care for mastectomy, lumpectomy, and lymph node dissection patients
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-p — Disclosure of information concerning family violence
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-q — Family councils in residential health care facilities
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-r — Dissemination of information about the abandoned infant protection act
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-s — Access to product recall information
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-t — Preadmission information
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-u — Hospital substance use disorder policies and procedures
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-v — Standing orders for newborn care in a hospital
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-v — Lymphedema information distribution
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-w — Disclosure of information concerning pregnancy complications
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-w — Independent quality monitors for residential health care facilities
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-x — Requirements related to nursing homes and related assets and operations
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-y — Provision of residency agreement
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-z — Transfer, discharge and voluntary discharge requirements for residential health care facilities
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2803-z — Antimicrobial resistance prevention and education
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2804 — Units for hospital and health-related affairs
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2804-a — State task force on clinical practice guidelines and medical technology assessment
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805 — Approval of hospitals; operating certificates
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-a — Disclosure of financial transactions
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-b — Admission of patients and emergency treatment of nonadmitted patients
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-c — Every private proprietary nursing home having a capacity of eighty patients or more may have a licensed medical doctor in attendance, upo...
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-d — Limitation of medical, dental or podiatric malpractice action based on lack of informed consent
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-e — Reports of residential health care facilities
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-f — Money deposited or advanced for admittance to nursing homes; waiver void; administration expenses
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-g — Maintenance of records
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-h — Immunizations
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-i — Treatment of sexual offense victims and maintenance of evidence in a sexual offense
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-j — Medical, dental and podiatric malpractice prevention program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-k — Investigations prior to granting or renewing privileges
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-l — Adverse event reporting
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-m — Confidentiality
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-n — Child abuse prevention
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-o — Identification of veterans and their spouses by nursing homes, residential health care facilities, and adult care facilities
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-p — Emergency treatment of rape survivors
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-q — Hospital visitation by domestic partner
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-r — Patients unable to verbally communicate
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-s — Circulating nurse required
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-t — Clinical staffing committees and disclosure of nursing quality indicators
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-u — Credentialing and privileging of health care practitioners providing telemedicine services
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-v — Observation services
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-w — Patient notice of observation services
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-x — Hospital-home care-physician collaboration program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-y — Identification and assessment of human trafficking victims
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2805-z — Hospital domestic violence policies and procedures
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2806 — Hospital operating certificates; suspension or revocation
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2806-a — Temporary operator
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2806-b — Residential health care facilities; revocation of operating certificate
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807 — Hospital reimbursement provisions; generally
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-a — General hospital nineteen hundred eighty-six and nineteen hundred eighty-seven inpatient rates and charges
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-aa — Nurse loan repayment program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-b — Outstanding payments and reports due under subdivision eighteen of section twenty-eight hundred seven-c, sections twenty-eight hundred se...
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-c — General hospital inpatient reimbursement for annual rate periods beginning on or after January first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-d — Hospital assessments
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-D-1 — Hospital quality contributions
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-dd — Temporary nursing home stability contributions
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-e — Uniform bills
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-f — Health maintenance organization payment factor
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-ff — New York managed care organization provider tax
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-i — Service and quality improvement grants
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-j — Patient services payments
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-k — General hospital indigent care pool
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-l — Health care initiatives pool distributions
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-m — Distribution of the professional education pools
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-n — Palliative care education and training
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-o — Early intervention services pool
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-p — Comprehensive diagnostic and treatment centers indigent care program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-r — Funding for expansion of cancer services
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-s — Professional education pool funding
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-t — Assessments on covered lives
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-u — Transfers for tax credits
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-v — Tobacco control and insurance initiatives pool distributions
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-w — High need indigent care adjustment pool
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-x — Grants for long term care demonstration projects
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-y — Pool administration
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2807-z — Review of eligible federally qualified health center capital projects
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2808 — Residential health care facilities; rates of payment
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2808-a — Liability of certain persons
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2808-b — Certification of financial statements and financial information
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2808-c — Reimbursement of general hospital inpatient services
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2808-d — Nursing home quality improvement demonstration program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2808-e — Residential health care for children with medical fragility in transition to young adults and young adults with medical fragility demonst...
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2808-e — Nursing home ratings
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2808-f — Advanced residential health care for aging adults medical fragility demonstration program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2809 — Residential health care facilities; powers to require security
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2810 — Residential health care facilities; receivership
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2811 — Discounts and splitting fees with medical referral services; prohibited
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2812 — Construction
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2813 — Separability
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2814 — Health networks, global budgeting, and health care demonstrations
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2815 — Health facility restructuring program
• N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2815-a — Community health care revolving capital fund