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Jan 08, 2014 |
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Jan 10, 2013 |
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Senate Bill S2068
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2013-S2068 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยงยง4141, 4141-a, 4142, 4144, 4161, 4171 & 4175, Pub Health L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010:
S4494
2011-2012: S5001
2013-S2068 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S2068 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to death certificates PURPOSE: This bill includes physician assistants as health care practitioners who are authorized to sip death certificates under Article 41 of the Public Health Law. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Amends sections 4141, 4141-a, 4142, 4144, 4161, and 4175 of the Public Health Law to include physician assistants as health care practitioners authorized to issue death certificates. JUSTIFICATION: All health care practitioners who are caregivers for patients who expire in their care should be able to sign a death certificate for their patient. Chapter 153 of 2011 authorized nurse practitioners to sign death certificates in the same manner as physicians. Therefore permitting the same by physicians assistants is only logical. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2011-12: S.5001/A.3339 Died in Senate Health 2009-10: S.4494 (Duane)/A.1728 Died in Senate Health 2007-08: S.4425/A.5506 Died in Senate Health
2013-S2068 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2068 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 10, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- 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 death certificates THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 4141 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 153 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 4. (a) The medical certificate shall be made, dated, and signed by the physician, A PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT ACTING UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A PHYSICIAN or THE nurse practitioner, if any, last in attendance on the deceased. (b) Indefinite terms, denoting only symptoms of disease or conditions resulting from disease, shall not be held sufficient. (c) Any certificate stating the cause of death in terms which the commissioner declares indefinite shall be returned to the physician, A PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT ACTING UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A PHYSICIAN, THE nurse practitioner, or THE person making the medical certificate for correction and more definite statement. A CERTIFICATE CERTIFIED TO AND SIGNED BY A PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION SHALL HAVE THE SAME FORCE AND EFFECT IN LAW AS A CERTIFICATE SIGNED BY A PHYSICIAN. (d) Where a death is caused by an opioid overdose, such information shall be indicated, including any related information as the commission- er may require. S 2. Section 4141-a of the public health law, as amended by chapter 153 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: S 4141-a. Death certificate; duties of hospital administrator. When a death occurs in a hospital, except in those cases where certificates are issued by coroners or medical examiners, the person in charge of such hospital or his or her designated representative shall promptly present EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02576-01-3
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