NEW YORK – PIX11 first reported this astonishing story in August last year. The Chanko family, lost Mark Chanko after he was hit by a garbage truck in the Upper East Side. As if this loss wasn’t bad enough, 16 months after his death his family watched his last moments of life, aired on an ABC reality show "NY Med”, without any consent from Chanko himself and without any consent from his wife or children.

"The camera was on him when he passed away," said Ken Chanko, Mark's son.

New York City Councilman Daniel Garodnick rallied to get city hospitals to stop this practice and it worked.

The Greater New York Hospital Association backtracked on a previous policy and now stopped its hospitals from allowing reality shows from filming inside their hospitals without approval.

But now even more progress as both the State Assembly and State Senate move to put in the books a law preventing patients from being filmed during treatments without their consent.

Currently no such law exists.

Assemblyman Ed Braunstein is spearheading the bill.

"I think that anybody who wants to believe in the medical system wants to believe that a doctor attending to them their main concern is the patient and when you have someone who is being videotaped you don’t know if that may influence their decision making process or the treatment that they give you and you should at least know beforehand," Braunstein said. .

At the Senate level, Marty Golden is the bill’s main sponsor. Both lawmakers said this is a bi-partisan effort.

Should the bill pass, violating the law would result in a misdemeanor charge, giving families like the Chanko’s some recourse should this ever happen to them.

"Profits definitely trumped patient privacy. It really did there’s no question about it. We're really heartened by how our legislators are fighting for it," Chanko said.