Do you support this bill?

Assembly Bill A1958

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.

Actions

co-Sponsors

2025-A1958 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3363
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4141, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9525, S9115

2025-A1958 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-A1958 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1958
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PAULIN, DAVILA, SAYEGH, LUCAS -- 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.
                                                            LBD05347-01-5

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.