Assembly Bill A5583

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Includes information on if a person previously lived in a nursing home on his or her death certificate

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A5583 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4141, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A10311

2023-A5583 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes information on if a person previously lived in a nursing home on his or her death certificate.

2023-A5583 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5583
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including informa-
   tion  on  if a person previously lived in a nursing home on his or her
   death certificate
 
   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 is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
   (E) EVERY CERTIFICATE SHALL INCLUDE, IN A SEPARATE  AREA,  INFORMATION
 ON  IF THE DECEDENT PREVIOUSLY RESIDED IN A NURSING HOME ISSUED AN OPER-
 ATING CERTIFICATE AS A NURSING HOME PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-EIGHT  OF
 THIS  CHAPTER.  SUCH  INFORMATION  SHALL BE INDICATED ON THE CERTIFICATE
 INCLUDING, IF KNOWN TO THE PERSON COMPLETING THE DEATH CERTIFICATE,  THE
 NAME OF THE NURSING HOME, LOCATION OF THE NURSING HOME, AND THE APPROXI-
 MATE DATES IN WHICH THE DECEDENT RESIDED IN THE NURSING HOME.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD06525-01-3

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