Bill Text: NY S00712 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that where death is caused by injuries relating to terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001 the certificate of death shall indicate such information; also requires the coroner or medical examiner to provide such information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S00712 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S00712-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          712
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 14, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  ADAMS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  contents  to  be
         contained in a certificate of death
         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)  WHERE  A  DEATH  IS  CAUSED  BY INJURIES RELATED TO THE TERRORIST
    4  ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE, SUCH INFORMATION  SHALL
    5  BE  INDICATED, INCLUDING ANY RELATED INFORMATION AS THE COMMISSIONER MAY
    6  REQUIRE.
    7    S 2. Subdivision 3 of section  4143  of  the  public  health  law,  as
    8  amended  by  chapter  545  of  the  laws  of 1965, is amended to read as
    9  follows:
   10    3. The coroner or medical examiner whose duty it is to investigate the
   11  death and to execute the certificate  of  death,  shall  state  in  such
   12  certificate  the  name of the disease causing death, or if from external
   13  causes, the means of death; whether  probably  accidental,  suicidal  or
   14  homicidal;  OR  WHERE  A  DEATH  IS  CAUSED  BY INJURIES RELATING TO THE
   15  TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE, SUCH INFORMA-
   16  TION SHALL BE INDICATED, and shall, in any case, furnish  such  informa-
   17  tion  as  may  be  required by the commissioner in order to classify the
   18  death.
   19    S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   20  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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