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Assembly Bill A9525

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the authority of a hospice medical director to sign a death certificate

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2023-A9525 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9115
Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4141, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A1958, S3363

2023-A9525 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Grants authority to a hospice medical director or a physician designated by such director, to sign a death certificate.

2023-A9525 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9525
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 20, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the authority of a
   hospice medical director to sign a death certificate
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision  4  of  section  4141  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 153 of the laws of 2011, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) The medical certificate shall be made, dated, and  signed  by  the
 physician  or  nurse  practitioner,  if  any,  last in attendance on the
 deceased, OR THE HOSPICE MEDICAL DIRECTOR OR A PHYSICIAN  DESIGNATED  BY
 SUCH DIRECTOR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14677-01-4

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