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Bill	Relates to the definition of medical debt	Exempts credit card debt from the definition of medical debt unless the credit card is issued under an open-ended or closed-ended plan offered specifically for the payment of health care services, products, or devices provided to a person.	us/states/ny	New York Legislature	2023-2024	S 8373	New York S 8373 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Gustavo Rivera	2	16	3	2024-01-24	2024-11-22	openstates	ocd-bill/15906b47-49f8-4e19-9939-b24b981b4823	http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8373	27c1aed0ab877d04556aff2698aade7adc8100f7231719946dae9fb47e5e5d49	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ny

New York S 8373 (2023-2024) — Relates to the definition of medical debt

Exempts credit card debt from the definition of medical debt unless the credit card is issued under an open-ended or closed-ended plan offered specifically for the payment of health care services, products, or devices provided to a person.

Version chain

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

1. S8373 (committee substitute) — source
2. S8373A (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Floor Vote - Version: A — 53–8 (pass) · upper
• Assembly Vote — 141–0 (pass) · lower
• Consumer Protection Vote - Version: A — 6–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gustavo Rivera — primary (person)
• Lea Webb — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-24 REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER PROTECTION amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 PRINT NUMBER 8373A amendment-passage
• 2024-02-06 1ST REPORT CAL.361
• 2024-02-07 2ND REPORT CAL.
• 2024-02-12 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• 2024-05-15 PASSED SENATE passage
• 2024-05-15 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• 2024-05-16 REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS referral-committee
• 2024-05-20 SUBSTITUTED FOR A9438
• 2024-05-20 ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.77
• 2024-05-20 PASSED ASSEMBLY passage
• 2024-05-20 RETURNED TO SENATE
• 2024-11-15 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR executive-receipt
• 2024-11-22 SIGNED CHAP.514 executive-signature
• 2024-11-22 APPROVAL MEMO.19

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/15906b47-49f8-4e19-9939-b24b981b4823. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).