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                                   6912
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             December 18, 2019
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  JACOBS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the New York Right
   to ID Act
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New York
 Right to ID Act".
   § 2. Subdivision 3 of section  4173  of  the  public  health  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  293  of  the  laws  of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3. (a) The registrar shall be entitled to a fee  of  ten  dollars  for
 each  certification  of  birth  or  death  or for each certified copy or
 certified transcript of any record of a birth or of a  death  or  for  a
 certification  that  a  search  discloses  no  record of a birth or of a
 death, furnished by him to an applicant, except that  no  fee  shall  be
 charged  for a search, certification of birth or death or certified copy
 or certified transcript of a birth or a death  record  to  be  used  for
 school entrance, employment certificate or for purposes of public relief
 or  government  compensation  or  when required by the veterans adminis-
 tration to be used in determining  the  eligibility  of  any  person  to
 participate  in  the  benefits  made  available by the veterans adminis-
 tration, PROVIDED THAT NO FEE SHALL BE CHARGED  FOR  A  SEARCH,  CERTIF-
 ICATION  OF  BIRTH  OR CERTIFIED COPY OR CERTIFIED TRANSCRIPT OF A BIRTH
 RECORD WHERE THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A SEARCH OF WHICH HE OR SHE  IS
 THE  SUBJECT  OR  IS  REQUESTING  HIS OR HER CERTIFICATION OF BIRTH OR A
 CERTIFIED COPY OR A CERTIFIED TRANSCRIPT OF A  BIRTH  RECORD  WHERE  THE
 APPLICANT IS A MEDICAID ELIGIBLE PERSON AND THE APPLICANT HAS NOT PREVI-
 OUSLY  MADE  SUCH A REQUEST TO THE REGISTRAR, provided FURTHER, however,
 that if such registrar is a city clerk, town clerk or village clerk,  he
 shall  collect  such fees for and on behalf of the city, town or village
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 in which he serves, provided, however, that an amount equivalent to  the
 sum  of  such  fees shall be paid at least monthly by such city, town or
 village to such city clerk, town clerk  or  village  clerk  entitled  to
 receive fees as a registrar of vital statistics.
   (b)  Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subdivision, in the follow-
 ing county jurisdictions the fee shall  be  set  by  the  county  health
 commissioner:  Chemung, Monroe, Onondaga, Tompkins; and in the following
 local jurisdictions the fee shall be set by the local legislative  body:
 city  of  Oswego,  city of Albany. In such jurisdictions, the fee may be
 set up to the amount charged by the commissioner as prescribed in subdi-
 vision two of section forty-one hundred seventy-four of this title.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.