Bill Text: NY A10590 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the reporting of sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy; requires that when an autopsy shows a person died as a result of sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy, such cause shall be noted on the death certificate and filed with the North American SUDEP registry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-08 - print number 10590a [A10590 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10590-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10590--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 7, 2016
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Brindisi) --
          read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Health -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the  reporting  of
          sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 4210 of the public health law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  When  an  autopsy of the body is conducted of a deceased human who
     4  has epilepsy or a history of seizures it shall include an  investigation
     5  and  determinations  as  to whether the deceased suffered a sudden unex-
     6  pected death in epilepsy. In the event the deceased did suffer a sudden,
     7  unexpected death in epilepsy, such information shall  be  noted  on  the
     8  death certificate and be reported to the North American SUDEP Registry.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15705-03-6