Bill Text: NY S05983 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires each certificate of death to also be filed with each board of elections within the state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S05983 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S05983-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5983--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring each certificate of death to also be filed with each board of elections within the state The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 4140 of the public health law, as 2 amended by chapter 476 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. The commissioner and the department of health of the city of New 5 York shall deliver to the state board of elections, at least monthly, 6 records in a format as mutually determined by both agencies, of the 7 names of all persons of voting age for whom death certificates were 8 issued. Such records shall be arranged by county of residence and shall 9 include the name, residence address and birth date of each such person, 10 and be conveyed therewith to each board of elections within the state in 11 a manner prescribed by the state board of elections. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06711-02-3
