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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Relates to establishing protections from excessive hospital emergency charges"
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description: "Establishes patient protections from excessive hospital emergency charges; includes hospital charges, including hospital charges for inpatient services which follow an emergency room visit."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
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legislature: "New York Legislature"
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session: "2019-2020"
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identifier: "A 264"
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citation: "New York A 264 (2019-2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["CAHILL"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 20
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2019-01-09"
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last_action: "2019-10-17"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89387a4a-b4d9-4f8b-aa46-8cd59f19d9c5"
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source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/A264"
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source_hash: "43b94b39fbd02a9902c7e54e6df5a648f5ef5c2a782a5ad2328ca10341ff1017"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
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---
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# New York A 264 (2019-2020) — Relates to establishing protections from excessive hospital emergency charges
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Establishes patient protections from excessive hospital emergency charges; includes hospital charges, including hospital charges for inpatient services which follow an emergency room visit.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **A264** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A264&term=2019&Text=Y)
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2. **A264A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/A264A)
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3. **A264B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/A264B)
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## Votes
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- MOTION:PRETLOW; To appeal decision of the chair — **90–49** (pass) · lower
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- Assembly Vote — **91–47** (pass) · lower
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- Floor Vote - Version: B — **62–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- CAHILL — primary (person)
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- ARROYO — cosponsor (person)
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- BARRON — cosponsor (person)
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- BLAKE — cosponsor (person)
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- COLTON — cosponsor (person)
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- JACOBSON — cosponsor (person)
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- JEAN-PIERRE — cosponsor (person)
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- MCDONOUGH — cosponsor (person)
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- ORTIZ — cosponsor (person)
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- REYES — cosponsor (person)
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- STECK — cosponsor (person)
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- TAYLOR — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-01-09** REFERRED TO INSURANCE `referral-committee`
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- **2019-05-02** AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO INSURANCE `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
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- **2019-05-02** PRINT NUMBER 264A `amendment-passage`
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- **2019-05-17** AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO INSURANCE `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
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- **2019-05-17** PRINT NUMBER 264B `amendment-passage`
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- **2019-05-21** REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-05** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-05** REPORTED
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- **2019-06-05** RULES REPORT CAL.65
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- **2019-06-05** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.65
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- **2019-06-05** RULING OF CHAIR ON POINT OF ORDER
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- **2019-06-05** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
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- **2019-06-05** DELIVERED TO SENATE
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- **2019-06-05** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-18** SUBSTITUTED FOR S3171A
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- **2019-06-18** 3RD READING CAL.1598
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- **2019-06-18** PASSED SENATE `passage`
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- **2019-06-18** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
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- **2019-10-11** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
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- **2019-10-17** SIGNED CHAP.375 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89387a4a-b4d9-4f8b-aa46-8cd59f19d9c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
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