A 7976 — Establishes a penalty and cause of action for intentional destruction of medical records by a party to a medical malpractice action, or by an agent thereof
Congress · introduced 2025-04-16
Establishes a penalty of not less than $1,000 for each intentional destruction, mutilation or significant alteration of a medical record by a party to a medical malpractice action, or by any officer, director, member, employee or agent of such party; establishes a cause of action on behalf of any person injured as the result of such destruction, mutilation or significant alteration; requires disclosure of metadata, audit trail, and log-in information associated with electronic medical records in certain actions.
Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM
Sponsors
- Patrick J. Carroll (—, NY-96) — sponsor · 2025-04-16
Action timeline
- · assembly — REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
- · assembly — REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
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| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-16 | Patrick J. Carroll | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
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 | Patrick J. Carroll (—, state_lower NY-96) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
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
Activity
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- 2025-04-16 · sponsored by Patrick J. Carroll (sponsor) · sponsorship