Supporting Family Health Care Decisions

How You Can Help

Contact the Health Committee Chairs in the Senate and Assembly.

Senator Kemp Hannon
Chair, Senate Health Committee
708 Legislative Office Building
Albany, NY 12248
518-455-2200
E-mail: hannon@senate.state.ny.us

Assemblyman Richard Gottfried
Chair, Assembly Health Committee
822 Legislative Office Building
Albany, NY 12248
518-455-4941
E-mail: gottfrr@assembly.state.ny.us

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver
Room 932, Legislative Office Building
Albany, New York 12248
518-455-3791
speaker@assembly.state.ny.us

Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno
Room 909, Legislative Office Building
Albany, New York 12247
518-583-1001
bruno@senate.state.ny.us

Contact your local Senators and Assembly Members

Look up your Senator by zip code from the Senate website
Find your Assembly Members in the directory from the Assembly website. Each Assembly member's site has a district map for you to double check your location.

You can also look for your district via a NYS Assembly Map and a NYS Senate Map, both available through Voter Contact Services.


Write letters to editor and Op-Ed pieces.

A New York Law Journal piece by Robert Swidler is available for reference.

Keep in touch: join the FHCDA listserv:

Send request for FHCDA-list to Jack Freer
Sample Letters


Get More Detailed Information

Press and others interested in more information about clinical issues can contact one of several physicians who can assist you in detail


For more information, E-mail Family Decision Coalition
For questions about website, E-mail Jack Freer