---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires residential health care facilities to provide notices to patients when a temporary operator has been appointed"
description: "Requires residential health care facilities to provide notices to patients when a temporary operator has been appointed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "A 8159"
citation: "New York A 8159 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["WRIGHT"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-06-01"
last_action: "2018-12-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b7459a1-0d7e-4145-8367-525b4607a633"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/A8159"
source_hash: "2f28ae9fedaa4db67db142ceeaacd314b9fb2cd8e9368e3defb809f4b080be93"
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 8159 (2017-2018) — Requires residential health care facilities to provide notices to patients when a temporary operator has been appointed

Requires residential health care facilities to provide notices to patients when a temporary operator has been appointed.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **A8159 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A8159&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **A8159 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/A8159)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote - Vote 2 — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- Assembly Vote — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- WRIGHT — primary (person)
- ABBATE — cosponsor (person)
- AUBRY — cosponsor (person)
- CRESPO — cosponsor (person)
- GALEF — cosponsor (person)
- GOTTFRIED R — cosponsor (person)
- PERRY — cosponsor (person)
- SEPULVEDA — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-06-01** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-06** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** REPORTED
- **2017-06-13** RULES REPORT CAL.266
- **2017-06-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.266
- **2017-06-14** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-06-14** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2017-06-14** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-03** DIED IN SENATE
- **2018-01-03** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2018-01-03** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.587
- **2018-03-27** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2018-03-27** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2018-03-27** REFERRED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-18** SUBSTITUTED FOR S766
- **2018-06-18** 3RD READING CAL.1814
- **2018-06-18** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2018-06-18** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2018-11-26** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2018-12-07** SIGNED CHAP.401 `executive-signature`
- **2018-12-07** APPROVAL MEMO.11

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b7459a1-0d7e-4145-8367-525b4607a633`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).