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                                    197
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED,  PAULIN,  SAYEGH -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to  chang-
   ing  reference  from  physician,  osteopath  or dentist to health care
   practitioner

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Rule 2106 of the civil practice law and rules, as amended
 by chapter 380 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   Rule 2106. Affirmation of truth of statement. (a) The statement of  an
 attorney  admitted  to  practice  in  the  courts  of the state, or of a
 [physician, osteopath or dentist]  HEALTH  CARE  PRACTITIONER  LICENSED,
 CERTIFIED,  OR authorized [by] UNDER TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION law to
 practice in the state, who is not a party to an action, when  subscribed
 and  affirmed  by  him OR HER to be true under the penalties of perjury,
 may be served or filed in the action in lieu of and with the same  force
 and effect as an affidavit.
   (b)  The  statement  of  any  person,  when  that person is physically
 located outside the geographic boundaries of the United  States,  Puerto
 Rico,  the  United  States  Virgin  Islands, or any territory or insular
 possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States,  subscribed
 and  affirmed  by that person to be true under the penalties of perjury,
 may be used in an action in lieu of and with the same force  and  effect
 as  an affidavit. Such affirmation shall be in substantially the follow-
 ing form:
   I affirm this ___ day of ______, ____, under the penalties of  perjury
 under  the  laws  of New York, which may include a fine or imprisonment,
 that I am physically located outside the geographic  boundaries  of  the
 United  States,  Puerto  Rico,  the United States Virgin Islands, or any
 territory or insular possession  subject  to  the  jurisdiction  of  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00030-01-1

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 United  States,  that  the foregoing is true, and I understand that this
 document may be filed in an action or proceeding in a court of law.
   (Signature)
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.