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Senate Bill S2730

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Provides that where death is caused by injuries relating to terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001 the certificate of death shall indicate such information

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2013-S2730 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง4141 & 4143, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S712
2011-2012: S3623

2013-S2730 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that where death is caused by injuries relating to terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001 the certificate of death shall indicate such information; also requires the coroner or medical examiner to provide such information.

2013-S2730 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S2730 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2730

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 23, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ADAMS  -- 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  contents  to  be
  contained in a certificate of death

  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)  WHERE  A  DEATH  IS  CAUSED  BY INJURIES RELATED TO THE TERRORIST
ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE, SUCH INFORMATION  SHALL
BE  INDICATED, INCLUDING ANY RELATED INFORMATION AS THE COMMISSIONER MAY
REQUIRE.
  S 2. Subdivision 3 of section  4143  of  the  public  health  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  545  of  the  laws  of 1965, is amended to read as
follows:
  3. The coroner or medical examiner whose duty it is to investigate the
death and to execute the certificate  of  death,  shall  state  in  such
certificate  the  name of the disease causing death, or if from external
causes, the means of death; whether  probably  accidental,  suicidal  or
homicidal;  OR  WHERE  A  DEATH  IS  CAUSED  BY INJURIES RELATING TO THE
TERRORIST ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE, SUCH INFORMA-
TION SHALL BE INDICATED, and shall, in any case, furnish  such  informa-
tion  as  may  be  required by the commissioner in order to classify the
death.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05575-01-3

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