Bill Text: NY A09927 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a certified copy of a birth record shall be issued upon a specific request therefor by a person with a direct interest in the content of the birth record and that the information contained therein is necessary for the determination of personal or property right.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - referred to health [A09927 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09927-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9927

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requests for birth
          certificates

          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 4173 of the public health law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  30 of part L of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    2. A certified copy or certified transcript of a birth record shall be
     5  issued only upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction  or  upon  a
     6  specific  request  therefor  by  the person, if eighteen years of age or
     7  more, or by a parent or other lawful representative  of  the  person  to
     8  whom  the record of birth relates including an authorized representative
     9  of the office of children and family services or a local social services
    10  district if the person is in the care and custody or custody and guardi-
    11  anship of such entity, or upon a specific request therefor by  a  person
    12  with  a  direct interest in the content of the birth record and that the
    13  information contained therein is  necessary  for  the  determination  of
    14  personal  or  property  right as determined by the registrar under regu-
    15  lations prescribed by the commissioner.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15096-01-4