Bill Text: NY S02422 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-05 - SUBSTITUTED BY A2380 [S02422 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02422-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2422 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- 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 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. LBD02063-01-7