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Assembly Bill A10311

2021-2022 Legislative Session

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

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2021-A10311 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4141, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A5583
2025-2026: A4142

2021-A10311 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-A10311 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10311
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
   read once and referred to the Committee 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.
                                                            LBD14096-02-2

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