Assembly Actions -
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Senate Bill S5712
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 42nd Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government 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
2025-S5712 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Local Government
- Law Section:
- County Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §400, County L
- Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
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S9443
2025-S5712 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S5712 SPONSOR: SKOUFIS TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the county law, in relation to coroner qualifications PURPOSE: To require that coroners must be healthcare professionals or board-cer- tified medicolegal death investigators. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1: Amends section 400 of the county law by adding a new subdivi- sion 3-c requiring coroners to be doctors, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians' assistants, or board-certified medicolegal death investigators. Section 2: Amends County Law § 400(4-b) by specifying that coroner's physicians must be licensed doctors.
2025-S5712 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5712 2025-2026 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government 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 PHYSICIAN DULY LICENSED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE SHALL BE A CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER OR LICENSED PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT AUTHORIZED TO PRAC- TICE PURSUANT TO TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW, OR SHALL BE A CERTI- FIED MEDICOLEGAL DEATH INVESTIGATOR OR HOLD AN ASSOCIATE'S OR BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN NURSING, NATURAL SCIENCE, FORENSIC SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGY OR OTHER RELATED FIELD WHILE PURSUING CERTIFICATION FROM THE AMERICAN BOARD OF MEDICOLEGAL DEATH INVESTIGATORS OR SIMILAR PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION. ANY CORONER WHO IS NOT SO LICENSED OR CERTIFIED, OR WHO DOES NOT HAVE SUCH DEGREE WHILE PURSUING SUCH CERTIFICATION AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION MAY FINISH OUT THEIR TERM. § 2. Subdivision 4-b of section 400 of the county law, as added by chapter 897 of the laws of 1962, is amended to read as follows: 4-b. Coroner's physician. Except in counties where the office of coroner has been abolished, the board of supervisors may appoint one or more coroner's physicians or may provide by local law for the appoint- ment of one or more coroner's physicians, and may fix the terms of their office. In any county in which the coroner or any of the coroners is not a physician duly licensed to practice medicine in this state, the board shall appoint one or more coroner's physicians. Each coroner's physician appointed pursuant to this subdivision MUST BE A PHYSICIAN DULY LICENSED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE IN THIS STATE AND shall by virtue of [his] THEIR office be a deputy coroner and shall possess the powers and perform the duties of the coroner, during the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09861-01-5
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