Bill Text: NY A09896 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits charges for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or fetal death.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - referred to health [A09896 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A09896-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9896 IN ASSEMBLY April 26, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZACCARO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting charges for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or fetal death The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 4160-a of the public health law, 2 as added by chapter 552 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 9. The registrar may not charge [a] any fee for the issuance of a 5 certificate under this section [equal to the fee authorized by law for6the certification of a birth or death]. 7 § 2. Section 4160 of the public health law is amended by adding a new 8 subdivision 6 to read as follows: 9 6. A local registrar shall not charge a fee for the issuance of a 10 certificate of fetal death under this article. 11 § 3. Subdivision b of section 17-169 of the administrative code of the 12 city of New York is amended to read as follows: 13 b. A transcript of a record of fetal death, or death, upon such forms 14 as the department shall prescribe, shall be issued upon request unless 15 it does not appear to be necessary or required for a proper purpose. The 16 board may prescribe reasonable fees for searches made of records of 17 birth[, fetal death,] or death, and the usual fees for copies of records 18 to be paid for certifications of birth and for transcripts of records of 19 birth[, fetal death,] or death, and in what cases the payment of fees 20 may be waived. The board shall not prescribe or charge any fees for 21 searches made of records of fetal death or for the transcripts of 22 records of fetal death. 23 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15177-01-4