Bill Text: NY S00515 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the implementation of an electronic death registration system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S00515 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00515-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           515
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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 to the implementation
          of an electronic death registration system
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 5 of section 4148 of the public health
     2  law, as added by chapter 352 of the laws of 2013, are amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The department is hereby authorized and directed to design,  imple-
     5  ment  and  maintain an electronic death registration system for collect-
     6  ing, storing, recording, transmitting, amending, correcting and  authen-
     7  ticating  information,  as necessary and appropriate to complete a death
     8  registration, and to  generate  such  documents  as  determined  by  the
     9  department  in  relation  to a death occurring in this state. As part of
    10  the design and implementation of the system established by this section,
    11  the department shall consult with all persons  authorized  to  use  such
    12  system to the extent practicable and feasible. The payment referenced in
    13  subdivision  five  of this section shall be collected for each burial or
    14  removal permit issued on or after the effective date of this section but
    15  in no circumstance after April  first,  two  thousand  twenty  from  the
    16  registered  funeral firm represented by the licensed funeral director or
    17  undertaker to whom such permit is issued, in the manner specified by the
    18  department and shall be used solely for the purpose set forth in  subdi-
    19  vision  five  of  this  section. Except as specifically provided in this
    20  section, the existing general duties of, and remuneration  received  by,
    21  local registrars in accepting and filing certificates of death and issu-
    22  ing  burial  and  removal  permits pursuant to any statute or regulation
    23  shall be maintained, and not altered or abridged  in  any  way  by  this
    24  section.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03567-01-9
        S. 515                              2
     1    5. [Licensed funeral directors and undertakers] Until April first, two
     2  thousand  twenty,  registered funeral firms shall support the establish-
     3  ment and maintenance of the electronic death registration system through
     4  a payment, tendered for each burial  and  removal  permit  issued  to  a
     5  licensed  funeral  director  or  undertaker,  in  the  amount  of twenty
     6  dollars, provided that such payment shall be considered a cost of opera-
     7  tion and the funeral director or undertaker shall not charge  any  addi-
     8  tional  fee  related  to such payment for funeral or other services.  No
     9  payment under this section shall be required on or  after  April  first,
    10  two thousand twenty.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.