---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to guardians and health care agents"
description: "Includes guardians of the principal as a person who may commence certain special proceedings; provides that if a hospital can with reasonable efforts ascertain the identity of the parents or guardian of an emancipated minor patient and obtain such parent's or guardian's contact information, the hospital shall notify such persons, and document such notification in the patient's medical record, prior to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "A 916"
citation: "New York A 916 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Paulin"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-02-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcea8048-0a3e-47ed-a923-53433d6a4b01"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A916"
source_hash: "dc29dc9c8a40dcef7d9865684de2b57fb9242683c8b9529be5b2e4c22397ba7b"
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 916 (2025-2026) — Relates to guardians and health care agents

Includes guardians of the principal as a person who may commence certain special proceedings; provides that if a hospital can with reasonable efforts ascertain the identity of the parents or guardian of an emancipated minor patient and obtain such parent's or guardian's contact information, the hospital shall notify such persons, and document such notification in the patient's medical record, prior to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.

## Version chain

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

1. **A916** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A916&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **39–22** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **145–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Amy Paulin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** REPORTED
- **2025-01-14** RULES REPORT CAL.17
- **2025-01-14** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.17
- **2025-01-22** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-01-22** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2025-01-22** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** SUBSTITUTED FOR S788
- **2025-02-11** 3RD READING CAL.62
- **2025-02-11** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-02-11** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-02-12** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-14** SIGNED CHAP.29 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcea8048-0a3e-47ed-a923-53433d6a4b01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).