Bill Text: NY A09896 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - referred to health [A09896 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09896-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9896

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ZACCARO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the administrative code of the
          city of New York, in relation to prohibiting charges 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 not charge [a] any fee  for  the  issuance  of  a
     5  certificate  under  this section [equal to the fee authorized by law for
     6  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. Subdivision b of section 17-169 of the administrative code of the
    12  city of New York is amended to read as follows:
    13    b. A transcript of a record of fetal death, or death, upon such  forms
    14  as  the  department shall prescribe, shall be issued upon request unless
    15  it does not appear to be necessary or required for a proper purpose. The
    16  board may prescribe reasonable fees for  searches  made  of  records  of
    17  birth[, fetal death,] or death, and the usual fees for copies of records
    18  to be paid for certifications of birth and for transcripts of records of
    19  birth[,  fetal  death,]  or death, and in what cases the payment of fees
    20  may be waived. The board shall not prescribe  or  charge  any  fees  for
    21  searches  made  of  records  of  fetal  death  or for the transcripts of
    22  records of fetal death.
    23    § 4. 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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