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Senate Bill S9930

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the handling of dead bodies

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2025-S9930 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §4211-a, Pub Health L

2025-S9930 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires entities having possession of unclaimed bodies of deceased persons known to be of Jewish descent to contact certain organizations to inquire if such organizations are willing to assume responsibility for the burial or cremation of such persons.

2025-S9930 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9930
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 16, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SUTTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  the  handling  of
   certain unclaimed bodies
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 4211-a to read as follows:
   § 4211-A. CADAVERS; UNCLAIMED; DELIVERY TO RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 1.
 NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS  OF SECTION FORTY-TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN OF
 THIS TITLE, AND PRIOR TO THE DISPOSITION OF  A  BODY  PURSUANT  TO  SUCH
 SECTION,  IF THE BODY OF A DECEASED PERSON IS NOT CLAIMED AS PROVIDED IN
 SECTION FORTY-TWO HUNDRED TWO OF THIS ARTICLE AND SUCH PERSON  IS  KNOWN
 TO HAVE BEEN OF  JEWISH DESCENT, THE DIRECTOR OR PERSON IN CHARGE OF ANY
 HOSPITAL,  INSTITUTION,  MORGUE  OR  OTHER  PLACE FOR BODIES OF DECEASED
 PERSONS NOT INTERRED OR OTHERWISE FINALLY DISPOSED OF, AND EVERY FUNERAL
 DIRECTOR, UNDERTAKER OR OTHER PERSON HAVING IN THEIR LAWFUL  POSSESSION,
 ANY BODY OF A DECEASED  PERSON  FOR  KEEPING  OR BURIAL, SHALL  CONTACT:
 (A)  MISASKIM, 5805 16TH AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11204, (718) 854-4548; AND/OR
 (B) CHESED SHEL EMES, 1224 52ND ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11219, (855)  273-2121,
 OR ANY SUCCESSOR ORGANIZATIONS, AND INQUIRE IF THE ORGANIZATION IS WILL-
 ING  TO  PAY  FOR THE BURIAL EXPENSE OF THE DECEASED PERSON, AND, IF THE
 ORGANIZATION IS WILLING TO DO SO,  DELIVER  THE  BODY  OF  THE  DECEASED
 PERSON IN THEIR POSSESSION, CHARGE, CUSTODY OR CONTROL NOT PLACED THERE-
 IN  BY  ANY  PERSON, AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION FOR KEEPING, BURIAL OR OTHER
 LAWFUL DISPOSITION TO THE AGREEING ORGANIZATION.
   2. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT SUPERSEDE ANY PRIOR  WRIT-
 TEN  DIRECTIVES OF THE DECEASED PERSON REGARDING ANATOMICAL GIFTS PURSU-
 ANT TO ARTICLE FORTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15576-01-6

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