S 5204 — Enacts the Health Care Nondiscrimination Act of 2025
NY 2025 session · introduced 2025-02-19
Enacts the Health Care Nondiscrimination Act; requires insurance coverage and health plans to implement equality and non-discrimination between licensed health care providers; requires fee parity between different classes of licensed providers providing the similar or like-kind services; requires practitioners to discuss and refer or prescribe non-pharmacological treatment alternatives before prescribing an opioid treatment; allows any licensed health care provider to perform certain services, including certifying disability and employment by school districts; provides for enforcement and penalties.
Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_SENATE_COMM
Sponsors (4)
- Jessica Scarcella-Spanton (—, NY-23) — sponsor · 2025-02-19
- Cordell Cleare (—, NY-30) — cosponsor · 2025-02-19
- Pete Harckham (—, NY-40) — cosponsor · 2025-02-19
- Sam Sutton (—, NY-22) — cosponsor · 2025-02-19
Action timeline (2)
- · senate — REFERRED TO HEALTH
- · senate — REFERRED TO HEALTH
Bill text (extracted)
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Connected on the graph
5 typed relationships in the influence graph — 5 inbound, 0 outbound, grouped by type.
cosponsor of bill (3)
| date | dir | entity | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-19 | ← | Sam Sutton | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-19 | ← | Pete Harckham | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-19 | ← | Cordell Cleare | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
lobbies on bill (1)
| date | dir | entity | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | ← | CHIROPRACTIC COUNCIL (NY) | — | ny_lobbying |
sponsor of bill (1)
| date | dir | entity | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-19 | ← | Jessica Scarcella-Spanton | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jessica Scarcella-Spanton (—, state_upper NY-23) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Cordell Cleare (—, state_upper NY-30) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Pete Harckham (—, state_upper NY-40) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Sam Sutton (—, state_upper NY-22) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Stance (positions taken)
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Timeline
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- 2026-05-21 · lobbied on by CHIROPRACTIC COUNCIL (NY) · ny_lobbying
- 2025-02-19 · cosponsored by Cordell Cleare (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-19 · sponsored by Jessica Scarcella-Spanton (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-19 · cosponsored by Pete Harckham (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-19 · cosponsored by Sam Sutton (cosponsor) · sponsorship