Assembly Bill A8420

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to coroner qualifications

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-A8420 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
County Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §400, County L

2023-A8420 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires any elected or appointed coroner who is not a licensed physician to be a registered nurse, nurse practitioner or physician's assistant duly licensed to practice medicine in this state.

2023-A8420 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8420
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 29, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to coroner qualifications
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  400 of the county law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 3-c to read as follows:
   3-C. CORONER QUALIFICATIONS. ANY ELECTED OR APPOINTED CORONER  WHO  IS
 NOT A LICENSED PHYSICIAN SHALL BE A REGISTERED NURSE, NURSE PRACTITIONER
 OR  PHYSICIAN'S  ASSISTANT  DULY  LICENSED  TO PRACTICE MEDICINE IN THIS
 STATE, EXCEPT THAT ANY CORONER WHO IS NOT SO LICENSED AS OF  THE  EFFEC-
 TIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION MAY FINISH OUT THEIR TERM.
   §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13919-01-3

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