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type: "Bill"
title: "Requires general hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke"
description: "Requires general hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to by-products generated from the use of an energy generating surgical device, including, but not limited to, surgical plume, smoke plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, and lung damaging dust through use of an airborne contaminant evacuation system."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "A 9974"
citation: "New York A 9974 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["GOTTFRIED"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-04-27"
last_action: "2022-12-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1dd00d34-6582-4d60-8209-5cc2e60fdb89"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A9974"
source_hash: "ef68084579655c428def1bea0cab3157bc99db470d8d8e438645d7d0b6b05f8e"
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 9974 (2021-2022) — Requires general hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke
Requires general hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to by-products generated from the use of an energy generating surgical device, including, but not limited to, surgical plume, smoke plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, and lung damaging dust through use of an airborne contaminant evacuation system.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **A9974** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A9974&term=2021&Text=Y)
## Votes
- Assembly Vote — **146–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **60–1** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- GOTTFRIED — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-04-27** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-10** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-17** REPORTED
- **2022-05-17** RULES REPORT CAL.253
- **2022-05-17** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.253
- **2022-05-17** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2022-05-17** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2022-05-17** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-25** SUBSTITUTED FOR S8869
- **2022-05-25** 3RD READING CAL.1461
- **2022-05-25** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2022-05-25** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2022-12-06** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2022-12-16** SIGNED CHAP.701 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1dd00d34-6582-4d60-8209-5cc2e60fdb89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).