---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishes a state frontotemporal degeneration registry"
description: "Establishes a state frontotemporal degeneration registry; defines terms; requires every physician, nurse practitioner, nurse physician assistant and general hospital that diagnoses or is treating a patient diagnosed with an FTD disorder to give notice to the department; requires certain information to be confidential; sets forth the duties of the commissioner of health; requires the department of health to create and maintain a webpage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 598"
citation: "New York S 598 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michelle Hinchey"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-10-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ad7ea15-b162-4cc2-b95b-a2c35026bf21"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S598"
source_hash: "fff1a6a0b763e0f41639d186cd510b9b05d694942c472859665849dcd1878e46"
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 598 (2025-2026) — Establishes a state frontotemporal degeneration registry

Establishes a state frontotemporal degeneration registry; defines terms; requires every physician, nurse practitioner, nurse physician assistant and general hospital that diagnoses or is treating a patient diagnosed with an FTD disorder to give notice to the department; requires certain information to be confidential; sets forth the duties of the commissioner of health; requires the department of health to create and maintain a webpage.

## Version chain

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

1. **S598** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S598&term=2025&Text=Y)
2. **S598A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S598A)
3. **S598B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S598B)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **143–0** (pass) · lower
- Health Vote — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote - Version: B — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Finance Vote - Version: B — **22–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michelle Hinchey — primary (person)
- Jeremy Cooney — cosponsor (person)
- Kristen Gonzalez — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Gianaris — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Fahy — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** PRINT NUMBER 598A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-02** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** PRINT NUMBER 598B `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-20** 1ST REPORT CAL.1210
- **2025-05-21** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2025-05-22** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2025-05-28** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-05-28** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-05-28** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-06** SUBSTITUTED FOR A1985C
- **2025-06-06** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.418
- **2025-06-06** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-06** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-10-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-10-16** SIGNED CHAP.479 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ad7ea15-b162-4cc2-b95b-a2c35026bf21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).