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legislation/us/states/ny/2021-2022/a-9974.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Requires general hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke"
+description: "Requires general hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to by-products generated from the use of an energy generating surgical device, including, but not limited to, surgical plume, smoke plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, and lung damaging dust through use of an airborne contaminant evacuation system."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2021-2022"
+identifier: "A 9974"
+citation: "New York A 9974 (2021-2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["GOTTFRIED"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-04-27"
+last_action: "2022-12-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1dd00d34-6582-4d60-8209-5cc2e60fdb89"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A9974"
+source_hash: "ef68084579655c428def1bea0cab3157bc99db470d8d8e438645d7d0b6b05f8e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York A 9974 (2021-2022) — Requires general hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke
+
+Requires general hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to by-products generated from the use of an energy generating surgical device, including, but not limited to, surgical plume, smoke plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, and lung damaging dust through use of an airborne contaminant evacuation system.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **A9974** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A9974&term=2021&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **146–0** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **60–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- GOTTFRIED — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-04-27** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-10** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-17** REPORTED
+- **2022-05-17** RULES REPORT CAL.253
+- **2022-05-17** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.253
+- **2022-05-17** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2022-05-17** DELIVERED TO SENATE
+- **2022-05-17** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-25** SUBSTITUTED FOR S8869
+- **2022-05-25** 3RD READING CAL.1461
+- **2022-05-25** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2022-05-25** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2022-12-06** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-12-16** SIGNED CHAP.701 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1dd00d34-6582-4d60-8209-5cc2e60fdb89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
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