NY A08812

Amends Civil Practice Law and Rules section 4518 to codify additional requirements for business records to be admitted as evidence under the hearsay exception

Requires judges to find that business records were made upon the recorder's own personal knowledge, or from information provided by someone with personal knowledge and a business duty to transmit it accurately, or from information subject to another hearsay exception

Adds specific requirement for hospital and medical office records, mandating that entries must be germane to the patient's treatment or diagnosis to qualify for admission

Maintains existing requirements that records be made in the regular course of business, that making such records was a regular business practice, and that entries were made at or within a reasonable time of the event

Takes effect immediately upon enactment