Bill Text: NY A01375 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of health to issue copies and transcripts of death certificates, which do not include the cause of death or medical certifications, for genealogical and research purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A01375 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01375-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1375

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 8, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to issuance of a
          record of death for genealogical or research purposes

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 4174 of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
     3    (a-1) upon request,  issue  to  any  applicant,  for  genealogical  or
     4  research  purposes,  a  copy  or  transcript  of the record of any death
     5  registered under the provisions of this chapter, which shall not include
     6  therein the cause of death of the decedent nor the medical certificate;
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01267-01-1