Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 06, 2025 |
print number 5624a |
May 06, 2025 |
amend (t) and recommit to local governments |
Feb 18, 2025 |
referred to local governments |
Assembly Bill A5624A
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
LUCAS
Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Bill Amendments
2025-A5624 - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Local Governments
- Law Section:
- County Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §674, County L; amd §4141, Pub Health L; amd §§3203, 3209, 3220 & 4510, Ins L
- Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
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A9027
2025-A5624 - Summary
Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act; requires the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner, to conduct a mental health assessment when a death occurs in such person's jurisdiction; requires death certificates list an underlying mental illness as the cause of death when a person commits suicide; requires life insurance policies to pay upon a suicide which the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner indicated an underlying mental illness as the cause of death.
2025-A5624 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5624 2025-2026 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 18, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LUCAS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to enacting the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act". § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 674 of the county law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: (C) (I) THE CORONER OR CORONER AND CORONER'S PHYSICIAN, OR THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, ALSO SHALL MAKE OR CAUSE TO BE MADE, A MENTAL HEALTH ASSESS- MENT WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, A THOROUGH EVALUATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S MEDICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC HISTORY AFTER A REVIEW OF ANY AVAILABLE DOCUMENTATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MEDICATION RECORDS OR THERAPY REPORTS. THE CORONER OR CORONER AND CORONER'S PHYSI- CIAN, OR THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, SHALL ACQUIRE ANY NECESSARY MEDICAL, PSYCHIATRIC, OR THERAPY RECORDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND SHALL KEEP SUCH RECORDS CONFIDENTIAL AND PROTECTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE PRIVACY LAWS. SUCH RECORDS SHALL ONLY BE USED FOR THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT, RESEARCH, AND PREVENTION EFFORTS. (II) UPON COMPLETION OF THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT, THE CORONER OR CORONER AND CORONER'S PHYSICIAN, OR THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, SHALL REDUCE TO WRITING ON A FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH ANY FIND- INGS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY INDICATIONS OF MENTAL DISTRESS OR ILLNESS AND ANY EVIDENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SCHIZOPHRENIA, DEPRESSION, PTSD, AND BIPOLAR DISORDER. ANY DOCUMENTS PRODUCED BY THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY FINDINGS, SHALL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL AND PROTECTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE PRIVACY LAWS. SUCH DOCUMENTS SHALL ONLY BE USED FOR RESEARCH AND PREVENTION EFFORTS. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08248-01-5
2025-A5624A (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Local Governments
- Law Section:
- County Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §674, County L; amd §4141, Pub Health L; amd §§3203, 3209, 3220 & 4510, Ins L
- Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
-
A9027
2025-A5624A (ACTIVE) - Summary
Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act; requires the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner, to conduct a mental health assessment when a death occurs in such person's jurisdiction; requires death certificates list an underlying mental illness as the cause of death when a person commits suicide; requires life insurance policies to pay upon a suicide which the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner indicated an underlying mental illness as the cause of death.
2025-A5624A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5624--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 18, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LUCAS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the county law, the public health law and the insurance law, in relation to enacting the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act". § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 674 of the county law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: (C) (I) THE CORONER OR CORONER AND CORONER'S PHYSICIAN, OR THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, ALSO SHALL MAKE OR CAUSE TO BE MADE, A MENTAL HEALTH ASSESS- MENT WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, A THOROUGH EVALUATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S MEDICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC HISTORY AFTER A REVIEW OF ANY AVAILABLE DOCUMENTATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MEDICATION RECORDS OR THERAPY REPORTS. THE CORONER OR CORONER AND CORONER'S PHYSI- CIAN, OR THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, SHALL ACQUIRE ANY NECESSARY MEDICAL, PSYCHIATRIC, OR THERAPY RECORDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT. (II) UPON COMPLETION OF THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT, THE CORONER OR CORONER AND CORONER'S PHYSICIAN, OR THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, SHALL REDUCE TO WRITING ON A FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH ANY FIND- INGS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY INDICATIONS OF MENTAL DISTRESS OR ILLNESS AND ANY EVIDENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SCHIZOPHRENIA, DEPRESSION, PTSD, AND BIPOLAR DISORDER. (III) ANY DOCUMENTS ACQUIRED FOR OR PRODUCED BY THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY MEDICAL RECORDS, THERAPY NOTES, AND THE CORONER'S FINDINGS OTHER THAN SUCH FINDINGS INCLUDED ON THE DEATH CERTIFICATE, SHALL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL AND PROTECTED IN EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08248-02-5
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