Bill Text: NY S09115 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grants authority to a hospice medical director or a physician designated by such director, to sign a death certificate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S09115 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09115-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9115

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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 authority of a
          hospice medical director to sign a death certificate

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  4 of section 4141 of the
     2  public health law, as amended by chapter 153 of the  laws  of  2011,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  The  medical  certificate shall be made, dated, and signed by the
     5  physician or nurse practitioner, if  any,  last  in  attendance  on  the
     6  deceased,  or  the hospice medical director or a physician designated by
     7  such director.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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