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                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 20, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. PERRY --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to birth certificates

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 4135 of the public health law,  as
amended  by chapter 398 of the laws of 1997, is amended and a new subdi-
vision 4 is added to read as follows:
  2. The name, IF KNOWN, of the putative father of a child born  out  of
wedlock  shall  [not]  be  entered on the certificate of birth [prior to
filing without (i) an acknowledgment of paternity  pursuant  to  section
one hundred eleven-k of the social services law or section four thousand
one  hundred  thirty-five-b  of this article executed by both the mother
and putative father, and filed with the record of birth; or (ii) notifi-
cation having been received by, or proper proof having been filed  with,
the record of birth by the clerk of a court of competent jurisdiction or
the  parents, or their attorneys of a judgment, order or decree relating
to parentage].
  4. A FATHER LISTED ON A CHILD'S  BIRTH  CERTIFICATE  MAY  CONTEST  THE
PATERNITY  OF SUCH CHILD PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN-K OF THE
SOCIAL SERVICES LAW. UPON ADJUDICATION THAT SUCH PERSON  LISTED  ON  THE
CHILD'S  BIRTH  CERTIFICATE  IS  NOT THE FATHER, A NEW BIRTH CERTIFICATE
SHALL BE ISSUED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION FOUR THOUSAND ONE
HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT OF THIS ARTICLE WITHOUT SUCH PERSON'S NAME.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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