Bill Text: NY A10148 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that the coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner shall promptly report to the division of veterans' affairs, in a one page form developed and provided by such division of veterans' affairs, any death which appears to be a suicide by a person who, to the knowledge of the coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner, is a veteran.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-12 - referred to veterans' affairs [A10148 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10148-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10148 IN ASSEMBLY March 12, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs AN ACT to amend the county law and the executive law, in relation to the reporting of a veteran's suicide The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 677 of the county law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 10 to read as follows: 3 10. The coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner shall prompt- 4 ly report to the division of veterans' affairs, in a one page form 5 developed and provided by such division, any death which appears to be a 6 suicide by a person who, to the knowledge of the coroner, coroner's 7 physician or medical examiner, is a veteran. 8 § 2. Section 353 of the executive law is amended by adding a new 9 subdivision 25 to read as follows: 10 25. To develop a one page form by which a coroner, coroner's physician 11 or medical examiner shall fill out to report to the division any death 12 which appears to be a suicide by a person who, to the knowledge of the 13 coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner, is a veteran. This 14 form shall provide the address to which the form is to be mailed or 15 submitted electronically. 16 § 3. Within 60 days of the effective date of this act, the division of 17 veterans' affairs shall establish and implement the procedures and forms 18 necessary for the implementation of this act. 19 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13942-04-0