STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
4142
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2025
___________
Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including informa-
tion on if a person previously lived in a nursing home on his or her
death certificate
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 4141 of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) Every certificate shall include, in a separate area, information
4 on if the decedent previously resided in a nursing home issued an oper-
5 ating certificate as a nursing home pursuant to article twenty-eight of
6 this chapter. Such information shall be indicated on the certificate
7 including, if known to the person completing the death certificate, the
8 name of the nursing home, location of the nursing home, and the approxi-
9 mate dates in which the decedent resided in the nursing home.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06282-01-5
