---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to incident notifications and reports"
description: "Provides that within ten days of an incident, the director shall provide to the qualified person a copy of the written incident report, offer to hold a meeting with such qualified person to discuss the incident, and provide such qualified person with a written report on the actions taken to address the incident; provides for the director to provide such reports electronically."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 5945"
citation: "New York S 5945 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["REICHLIN-MELNICK"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-23"
last_action: "2021-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04e5fdb1-4508-46d4-b551-f28b75493aa7"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S5945"
source_hash: "b56b2af9f37af931c3aef190685221795751f59527419dddac4c68c9e082355c"
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 S 5945 (2021-2022) — Relates to incident notifications and reports

Provides that within ten days of an incident, the director shall provide to the qualified person a copy of the written incident report, offer to hold a meeting with such qualified person to discuss the incident, and provide such qualified person with a written report on the actions taken to address the incident; provides for the director to provide such reports electronically.

## Version chain

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

1. **S5945** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5945&term=2021&Text=Y)
2. **S5945A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2021/S5945A)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **149–0** (pass) · lower
- Mental Health Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **63–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- REICHLIN-MELNICK — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-23** REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** 1ST REPORT CAL.1175
- **2021-05-20** AMENDED (T) 5945A
- **2021-05-20** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2021-05-24** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2021-06-03** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2021-06-03** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2021-06-03** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-07** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7163
- **2021-06-07** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.463
- **2021-06-07** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2021-06-07** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2021-08-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2021-08-20** SIGNED CHAP.407 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04e5fdb1-4508-46d4-b551-f28b75493aa7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).