Senate Bill S5983A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires each certificate of death to also be filed with each board of elections within the state

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health 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-S5983 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6504
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4140, Pub Health L

2023-S5983 - Summary

Requires each certificate of death to also be filed with each board of elections within the state.

2023-S5983 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5983 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5983
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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  requiring  each
   certificate  of  death  to  also be filed with each board of elections
   within the state

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  4140  of the public health law, subdivision 1 as
 amended by chapter 352 of the laws of 2013 and subdivision 3 as  amended
 by chapter 476 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   § 4140. Deaths; registration. 1. The death of each person who has died
 in  this state shall be registered immediately and not later than seven-
 ty-two hours after death or the finding of a dead human body, by  filing
 with  the  registrar  of the district in which the death occurred or the
 body was found a certificate of such death, in a manner  and  format  as
 prescribed  by  the commissioner, which shall include through electronic
 means in accordance with section forty-one hundred forty-eight  of  this
 title.
   2. WHEN A REGISTRAR FILES A CERTIFICATE OF DEATH UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE
 OF  THIS  SECTION, SUCH REGISTRAR SHALL ALSO FILE A CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
 WITH EACH BOARD OF ELECTIONS WITHIN THE STATE IN A MANNER PRESCRIBED  BY
 SUCH BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
   3.  If the certificate of death is properly executed and complete, the
 registrar of the district in which the death occurred shall then issue a
 burial or removal permit to the funeral director or undertaker. In  case
 the  death  occurred  from a disease which is designated in the sanitary
 code as a communicable disease, no  permit  for  the  removal  or  other
 disposition  of  the  body shall be issued by the registrar, except to a
 funeral  director  or  undertaker  licensed  in  accordance   with   the
 provisions  of  this chapter, under such conditions as may be prescribed
 in the sanitary code.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06711-01-3

2023-S5983A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6504
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4140, Pub Health L

2023-S5983A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires each certificate of death to also be filed with each board of elections within the state.

2023-S5983A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5983A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5983--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to requiring each
   certificate of death to also be filed with  each  board  of  elections
   within the state
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 4140 of the public health law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  476  of  the  laws  of 2002, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3. The commissioner and the department of health of the  city  of  New
 York  shall  deliver  to the state board of elections, at least monthly,
 records in a format as mutually determined  by  both  agencies,  of  the
 names  of  all  persons  of  voting age for whom death certificates were
 issued. Such records shall be arranged by county of residence and  shall
 include  the name, residence address and birth date of each such person,
 AND BE CONVEYED THEREWITH TO EACH BOARD OF ELECTIONS WITHIN THE STATE IN
 A MANNER PRESCRIBED BY THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06711-02-3

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