---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to financial responsibility for human postexposure treatment for rabies"
description: "Relates to financial responsibility for human postexposure treatment for rabies; provides health care providers shall accept payments by the county health authority for human post exposure treatment at a rate set by the commissioner of health; provides that such reimbursement shall be no less than the Medicaid rate."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 7501"
citation: "New York S 7501 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["HINCHEY"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-11-03"
last_action: "2022-11-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eea32bb6-2af7-458a-986f-14bbae8bbe39"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S7501"
source_hash: "96c69553f499b0e7db070246f21c6c34db649a18b913be6ab4c80f6f42c22ea4"
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 7501 (2021-2022) — Relates to financial responsibility for human postexposure treatment for rabies

Relates to financial responsibility for human postexposure treatment for rabies; provides health care providers shall accept payments by the county health authority for human post exposure treatment at a rate set by the commissioner of health; provides that such reimbursement shall be no less than the Medicaid rate.

## Version chain

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

1. **S7501** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7501&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Health Vote — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **139–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- HINCHEY — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-03** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-05** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** 1ST REPORT CAL.409
- **2022-02-02** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2022-02-03** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2022-03-29** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2022-03-29** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2022-03-29** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-03** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7408A
- **2022-05-03** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.539
- **2022-05-17** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2022-05-17** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2022-11-21** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2022-11-23** SIGNED CHAP.655 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eea32bb6-2af7-458a-986f-14bbae8bbe39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).