Bill Text: NY A10311 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes information on if a person previously lived in a nursing home on his or her death certificate.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to health [A10311 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A10311-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10311 IN ASSEMBLY May 13, 2022 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including informa- tion on if a person previously lived in a nursing home on his or her death certificate The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 4141 of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows: 3 (e) Every certificate shall include, in a separate area, information 4 on if the decedent previously resided in a nursing home issued an oper- 5 ating certificate as a nursing home pursuant to article twenty-eight of 6 this chapter. Such information shall be indicated on the certificate 7 including, if known to the person completing the death certificate, the 8 name of the nursing home, location of the nursing home, and the approxi- 9 mate dates in which the decedent resided in the nursing home. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 11 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14096-02-2
