Assembly Bill A5706

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5706
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to requiring each
   certificate of death to also be filed with the board of elections
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  4140  of the public health law, subdivision 1 as
 amended by chapter 352 of the laws of 2013 and subdivision 3 as  amended
 by chapter 476 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   § 4140. Deaths; registration. 1. The death of each person who has died
 in  this state shall be registered immediately and not later than seven-
 ty-two hours after death or the finding of a dead human body, by  filing
 with  the  registrar  of the district in which the death occurred or the
 body was found a certificate of such death, in a manner  and  format  as
 prescribed  by  the commissioner, which shall include through electronic
 means in accordance with section forty-one hundred forty-eight  of  this
 title.
   2. WHEN A REGISTRAR FILES A CERTIFICATE OF DEATH UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE
 OF  THIS  SECTION, SUCH REGISTRAR SHALL ALSO FILE A CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
 WITH THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS FOR THE COUNTY IN  WHICH  THE  REGISTRAR  IS
 APPOINTED  IN  A  MANNER  PRESCRIBED  BY  SUCH BOARD OF ELECTIONS.   THE
 REGISTRAR SHALL ALSO MAIL A COPY OF THE DEATH CERTIFICATE TO THE DEPART-
 MENT AND THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS  IN  THE  COUNTY  IN  WHICH  THE  PERSON
 RESIDED AT THE TIME OF DEATH.
   3.  If the certificate of death is properly executed and complete, the
 registrar of the district in which the death occurred shall then issue a
 burial or removal permit to the funeral director or undertaker. In  case
 the  death  occurred  from a disease which is designated in the sanitary
 code as a communicable disease, no  permit  for  the  removal  or  other
 disposition  of  the  body shall be issued by the registrar, except to a
 funeral  director  or  undertaker  licensed  in  accordance   with   the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02321-01-5
              

 A. 5706                             2
 
 provisions  of  this chapter, under such conditions as may be prescribed
 in the sanitary code.
   [3.]  4.  The commissioner and the department of health of the city of
 New York shall deliver to the state board of elections, at least  month-
 ly,  records in a format as mutually determined by both agencies, of the
 names of all persons of voting age  for  whom  death  certificates  were
 issued.  Such records shall be arranged by county of residence and shall
 include the name, residence address and birth date of each such person.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.