Bill Text: NY S01807 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits charging a fee for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or fetal death.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01807 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01807-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1807

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. FERNANDEZ, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting charg-
          es for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or fetal death

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 9 of section 4160-a of the public health law,
     2  as added by chapter 552 of the laws of  2011,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    9.  The  registrar [may] shall not charge [a] any fee for the issuance
     5  of a certificate under this section [equal to the fee authorized by  law
     6  for the certification of a birth or death].
     7    §  2. Section 4160 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
     8  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     9    6. A local registrar shall not charge a fee  for  the  issuance  of  a
    10  certificate of fetal death under this article.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





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