Senate Bill S198

2025-2026 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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2025-S198 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4140, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S5983

2025-S198 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S198 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S198 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    198
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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. 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.
                                                            LBD00888-01-5

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