Bill Text: NY K00767 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January 21-27, 2024, as Medicolegal Death Investigation Professionals Week in the State of New York

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 14-3)

Status: (Passed) 2024-01-22 - adopted [K00767 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-K00767-Introduced.html

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Assembly Resolution No. 767

BY: M. of A. Smullen

        MEMORIALIZING  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim
        January   21-27,   2024,   as   Medicolegal    Death
        Investigation Professionals Week in the State of New
        York

  WHEREAS,  It  is  the  custom  of this Legislative Body to recognize
official weeks that are set aside to  inform  residents  of  this  great
State  about the vital role and value of Medicolegal Death Investigation
Professionals in providing pertinent information on the manner and cause
of death of our loved ones; and

  WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern  and  in  full  accord  with  its
long-standing  traditions,  this  Legislative  Body  is  justly proud to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January  21-27,  2024,  as
Medicolegal  Death  Investigation Professionals Week in the State of New
York; and

  WHEREAS, Medicolegal Death Investigators are the last responders  of
the emergency services system who have a crucial function to investigate
deaths  within  their  judication  to  determine the manner and cause of
death, along with providing crucial statistics on current death  trends;
and

  WHEREAS,  Communities  throughout New York State rely on Medicolegal
Death Investigation Professionals  as  the  cornerstone  of  medicolegal
death investigations; and

  WHEREAS,  These professionals represent descendants, their families,
and their communities and ensure that suspicious,  violent,  unattended,
unexplained, and unexpected deaths that occur in their jurisdictions are
investigated; and

  WHEREAS,  Medicolegal  death  investigations  are  essential  to our
public health and law enforcement systems as they give a voice to  those
who can no longer speak for themselves; and

  WHEREAS,   Medicolegal   Death   Investigation   Professionals  Week
acknowledges and honors the difficult work done by these individuals  to
ensure  critical,  comprehensive,  and  compassionate investigations are
made into the death of New York residents and visitors; and

  WHEREAS, The State of New York would like to thank  all  medicolegal
professionals  for  providing  answers  to the decedent's family and the
community, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year; and

  WHEREAS, It is imperative that there be  greater  awareness  of  the
vital  role  Medicolegal  Death  Investigation Professionals play in the
lives of all citizens, and more must be done to increase this  awareness
at the local, State and National levels; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim January  21-27,  2024,  as

Medicolegal  Death  Investigation Professionals Week in the State of New
York; and be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of  New
York.