Bill Text: NY S06521 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the use of electronic signatures on funeral and cemetery services documents.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-07-01 - SIGNED CHAP.222 [S06521 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06521-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6521 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 4, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology AN ACT to amend the state technology law, the public health law and the not-for-profit corporation law, in relation to authorizing the use of electronic signatures on funeral and cemetery services documents The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 307 of the state technology law, 2 as amended by chapter 158 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. To any document providing for the disposition of an individual's 5 person or property upon death or incompetence, or appointing a fiduciary 6 of an individual's person or property, including, without limitation, 7 wills, trusts, decisions consenting to orders not to resuscitate, powers 8 of attorney and health care proxies, with the exception of: (a) contrac- 9 tual beneficiary designations; [and] (b) the registration of making, 10 amending, or revoking an anatomical gift under section forty-three 11 hundred ten of the public health law; and (c) documents and forms 12 authorizing or accepting funeral, cemetery and cremation services. 13 § 2. Section 4145 of the public health law is amended by adding a new 14 subdivision 6 to read as follows: 15 6. For the purposes of this section, such documents required to be 16 produced under this section may be signed by written instrument or the 17 use of an electronic signature, as that term is defined in subdivision 18 three of section three hundred two of the state technology law, with the 19 intent to execute the instrument, writing or electronic record. 20 § 3. The not-for-profit corporation law is amended by adding a new 21 section 1510-c to read as follows: 22 § 1510-c. Form of authorizations. 23 Any form, authorization, permit or designation required by this arti- 24 cle may be signed by written instrument or the use of an electronic EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10461-01-1S. 6521 2 1 signature, as that term is defined in subdivision three of section three 2 hundred two of the state technology law, with the intent to execute the 3 instrument, writing or electronic record. 4 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.