Bill Text: NY S06521 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          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.
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        S. 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.