Bill Text: NY A06180 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Adds domestic partner, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews of the deceased individual or the lawful representative of such persons to receive death certificates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-12-22 - approval memo.68 [A06180 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06180-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         6180--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to death certificates

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision  1  of  section  4174  of  the
     2  public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2012, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) upon request, issue to any applicant either a certified copy or  a
     5  certified  transcript  of  the  record of any death registered under the
     6  provisions of this chapter (1) when a documented medical need  has  been
     7  demonstrated,  (2)  when a documented need to establish a legal right or
     8  claim has been demonstrated, (3) when needed for medical  or  scientific
     9  research  approved  by the commissioner, (4) when needed for statistical
    10  or epidemiological purposes  approved  by  the  commissioner,  (5)  upon
    11  specific request by municipal, state or federal agencies for statistical
    12  or  official purposes, (6) upon specific request of the agent, as desig-
    13  nated pursuant to subdivision three of section four thousand two hundred
    14  one of this chapter, spouse, domestic partner, children, siblings  [or],
    15  parents,  grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces or nephews of the
    16  deceased or the lawful representative of such persons, or  (7)  pursuant
    17  to the order of a court of competent jurisdiction on a showing of neces-
    18  sity; except no certified copy or certified transcript of a death record
    19  shall  be subject to disclosure under article six of the public officers
    20  law;
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10401-02-3