Bill Text: NY S04991 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Changes the time limit within which a live birth must be registered from within 5 days of the birth, to within 15 days of the birth.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04991 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04991-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4991--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 3, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens. HELMING, FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- commit-
          tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
          mitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to the registration
          of live births
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 4130 of the public health law, as
     2  amended by chapter 506 of the laws  of  1955,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2.  The  birth  of each child born alive in this state shall be regis-
     5  tered within [five] fifteen days after the date of birth by filing  with
     6  the  registrar of the district in which the birth occurred a certificate
     7  of such birth, which certificate  shall  be  upon  the  form  prescribed
     8  therefor by the commissioner.
     9    §  2.  Subdivision  4  of  section  4130  of the public health law, as
    10  amended by chapter 884 of the laws  of  1972,  is  amended  to  read  as
    11  follows:
    12    4.  In  each  case  where  there  was no physician or nurse-midwife in
    13  attendance upon the birth, it shall be the duty of the father or  mother
    14  of  the  child, the householder or owner of the premises where the birth
    15  occurred, or the director or person in charge of the public  or  private
    16  institution  where  the  birth occurred, each in the order named, within
    17  [five] fifteen days after the date of such birth, to report to the local
    18  registrar the fact of such birth and to file said certificate.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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