Assembly Bill A9231

Vetoed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to eliminating the electronic death registration system fee for funeral directors and undertakers; repealer

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Vetoed By Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A9231 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8251
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4148, rpld §4148 sub 5, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4439, A9508, S3009, S8511

2021-A9231 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to eliminating the electronic death registration system fee for funeral directors and undertakers.

2021-A9231 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9231
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 9, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  eliminating  the
   electronic  death  registration  system  fee for funeral directors and
   undertakers; and to repeal provisions of such law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 4148 of the public health law, as
 added by chapter 352 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   1. The department is hereby authorized and directed to design,  imple-
 ment  and  maintain an electronic death registration system for collect-
 ing, storing, recording, transmitting, amending, correcting and  authen-
 ticating  information,  as necessary and appropriate to complete a death
 registration, and to  generate  such  documents  as  determined  by  the
 department  in  relation  to a death occurring in this state. As part of
 the design and implementation of the system established by this section,
 the department shall consult with all persons  authorized  to  use  such
 system  to  the extent practicable and feasible. [The payment referenced
 in subdivision five of this section shall be collected for  each  burial
 or  removal permit issued on or after the effective date of this section
 from the licensed funeral director or undertaker to whom such permit  is
 issued,  in  the  manner  specified  by the department and shall be used
 solely for the purpose set forth in subdivision five of  this  section.]
 Except  as  specifically  provided in this section, the existing general
 duties of, and remuneration received by, local registrars  in  accepting
 and  filing certificates of death and issuing burial and removal permits
 pursuant to any statute or  regulation  shall  be  maintained,  and  not
 altered or abridged in any way by this section.
   §  2.  Subdivision  5  of  section  4148  of  the public health law is
 REPEALED.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14352-01-2

              

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