Bill Text: NY A06522 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6522 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Changes the time limit within which a live birth must be registered from within 5 days of the birth, to within 15 days of the birth.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A06522 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06522-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         6522--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, SIMANOWITZ, COOK -- 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  the  registration
          of live births
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 4130 of the public health law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  506  of  the  laws  of 1955, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. The birth of each child born alive in this state  shall  be  regis-
     5  tered  within [five] fifteen days after the date of birth by filing with
     6  the registrar of the district in which the birth occurred a  certificate
     7  of  such  birth,  which  certificate  shall  be upon the form prescribed
     8  therefor by the commissioner.
     9    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section  4130  of  the  public  health  law,  as
    10  amended  by  chapter  884  of  the  laws  of 1972, is amended to read as
    11  follows:
    12    4. In each case where there  was  no  physician  or  nurse-midwife  in
    13  attendance  upon the birth, it shall be the duty of the father or mother
    14  of the child, the householder or owner of the premises where  the  birth
    15  occurred,  or  the director or person in charge of the public or private
    16  institution where the birth occurred, each in the  order  named,  within
    17  [five] fifteen days after the date of such birth, to report to the local
    18  registrar the fact of such birth and to file said certificate.
    19    § 3. 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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