Bill Text: NY A02626 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for the filing of death certificates for unclaimed cadavers and anatomical donations received for educational purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A02626 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02626-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2626--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PEOPLES-STOKES, ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on  Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to death, burial  and
          removal permits
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  4142-a to read as follows:
     3    §  4142-a.  Death  certificates;  unclaimed  cadavers  and  anatomical
     4  donations for educational purposes.  An institution authorized by  arti-
     5  cle forty-two or forty-three of this chapter to receive unclaimed cadav-
     6  ers  or  anatomical  gifts  for educational purposes that elects to file
     7  death certificates, shall:
     8    (a) obtain the personal and statistical particulars required  for  the
     9  certificate  of  death from a competent person acquainted with the facts
    10  and qualified to supply them and enter them on the certificate  together
    11  with the name and address of his or her informant;
    12    (b)  present  the certificate promptly to attending physician or nurse
    13  practitioner who shall forthwith certify to the facts of death,  provide
    14  the medical information required by the certificate and sign the medical
    15  certificate  of  death,  or  to the coroner or medical examiner in those
    16  cases where so required by this article or, when a  death  occurs  in  a
    17  hospital,  except in those cases where certificates are issued by coron-
    18  ers or medical examiners, to the person in charge of  such  hospital  or
    19  his  or  her  designated  representative,  who  shall obtain the medical
    20  certificate of death as prescribed in section forty-one  hundred  forty-
    21  one-a of this title;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01638-03-5