Bill Text: NY S09443 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires any elected or appointed coroner who is not a licensed physician to be a certified nurse practitioner or licensed physician assistant authorized to practice medicine in this state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-22 - PRINT NUMBER 9443A [S09443 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09443-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9443--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 15, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to coroner qualifications

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  400 of the county law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 3-c to read as follows:
     3    3-c. Coroner qualifications. Any elected or appointed coroner  who  is
     4  not  a physician duly licensed to practice medicine shall be a certified
     5  nurse practitioner or licensed physician assistant authorized  to  prac-
     6  tice  pursuant to title eight of the education law, or shall be a certi-
     7  fied medicolegal death investigator or hold an associate's or bachelor's
     8  degree in nursing, natural science, forensic  science,  anthropology  or
     9  other related field while pursuing certification from the American board
    10  of medicolegal death investigators or similar professional organization.
    11  Any  coroner  who  is not so licensed or certified, or who does not have
    12  such degree while pursuing such certification as of the  effective  date
    13  of this subdivision may finish out their term.
    14    §  2.  Subdivision  4-b  of section 400 of the county law, as added by
    15  chapter 897 of the laws of 1962, is amended to read as follows:
    16    4-b. Coroner's physician. Except  in  counties  where  the  office  of
    17  coroner  has been abolished, the board of supervisors may appoint one or
    18  more coroner's physicians or may provide by local law for  the  appoint-
    19  ment of one or more coroner's physicians, and may fix the terms of their
    20  office.    In  any county in which the coroner or any of the coroners is
    21  not a physician duly licensed to practice medicine in  this  state,  the
    22  board shall appoint one or more coroner's physicians.
    23    Each  coroner's  physician appointed pursuant to this subdivision must
    24  be a physician duly licensed to practice  medicine  in  this  state  and
    25  shall  by  virtue  of  [his]  their office be a deputy coroner and shall
    26  possess the powers and perform the duties of  the  coroner,  during  the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13919-08-4
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     1  absence or inability of the coroner to act, or in the event of a vacancy
     2  in the office of coroner.
     3    §  3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
     4  law.