Bill Text: NY S04805 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the implementation of an electronic death registration system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04805 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04805-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4805--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 2, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  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 implementation
          of an electronic death registration system
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 5 of section 4148 of the  public  health
     2  law, as added by chapter 352 of the laws of 2013, are amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  The department is hereby authorized and directed to design, imple-
     5  ment and maintain an electronic death registration system  for  collect-
     6  ing,  storing, recording, transmitting, amending, correcting and authen-
     7  ticating information, as necessary and appropriate to complete  a  death
     8  registration,  and  to  generate  such  documents  as  determined by the
     9  department in relation to a death occurring in this state.  As  part  of
    10  the design and implementation of the system established by this section,
    11  the  department  shall  consult  with all persons authorized to use such
    12  system to the extent practicable and feasible. The payment referenced in
    13  subdivision five of this section shall be collected for each  burial  or
    14  removal permit issued on or after the effective date of this section but
    15  in  no  circumstance  after  April first, two thousand eighteen from the
    16  registered funeral firm represented by the licensed funeral director  or
    17  undertaker to whom such permit is issued, in the manner specified by the
    18  department  and shall be used solely for the purpose set forth in subdi-
    19  vision five of this section. Except as  specifically  provided  in  this
    20  section,  the  existing general duties of, and remuneration received by,
    21  local registrars in accepting and filing certificates of death and issu-
    22  ing burial and removal permits pursuant to  any  statute  or  regulation
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  shall  be  maintained,  and  not  altered or abridged in any way by this
     2  section.
     3    5. [Licensed funeral directors and undertakers] Until April first, two
     4  thousand eighteen, registered funeral firms shall support the establish-
     5  ment and maintenance of the electronic death registration system through
     6  a  payment,  tendered  for  each  burial  and removal permit issued to a
     7  licensed funeral  director  or  undertaker,  in  the  amount  of  twenty
     8  dollars, provided that such payment shall be considered a cost of opera-
     9  tion  and  the funeral director or undertaker shall not charge any addi-
    10  tional fee related to such payment for funeral or other  services.    No
    11  payment  under  this  section shall be required on or after April first,
    12  two thousand eighteen.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.