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A09837 Summary:
BILL NO | A09837A |
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SAME AS | No Same As |
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SPONSOR | Steck |
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COSPNSR | Gottfried, Dinowitz, Skoufis, McDonald, Raia, Braunstein, Jean-Pierre, Santabarbara, Johns, Titone, Kolb, Finch, Garbarino |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §§4140, 4148 & 4171, Pub Health L | |
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Requires the implementation of an electronic death registration system; all deaths occurring in the state must be registered using the electronic registration system. |
A09837 Actions:
BILL NO | A09837A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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02/14/2018 | referred to health | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/14/2018 | amend and recommit to health | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/14/2018 | print number 9837a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/31/2018 | reported referred to codes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/05/2018 | reported referred to ways and means | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/07/2018 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/11/2018 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/12/2018 | rules report cal.109 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/12/2018 | ordered to third reading rules cal.109 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/12/2018 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/12/2018 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/12/2018 | REFERRED TO RULES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/13/2018 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S7630A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/13/2018 | 3RD READING CAL.1499 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2018 | SUBSTITUTION RECONSIDERED | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/20/2018 | RECOMMITTED TO RULES |
A09837 Committee Votes:
Gottfried | Aye | Raia | Aye | ||||||
Schimminger | Aye | McDonough | Aye | ||||||
Galef | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | Walter | Aye | ||||||
Cahill | Aye | Garbarino | Excused | ||||||
Paulin | Aye | Byrne | Aye | ||||||
Cymbrowitz | Aye | Norris | Aye | ||||||
Gunther | Aye | ||||||||
Rosenthal | Aye | ||||||||
Hevesi | Aye | ||||||||
Lavine | Aye | ||||||||
Titone | Excused | ||||||||
Jaffee | Aye | ||||||||
Steck | Aye | ||||||||
Abinanti | Aye | ||||||||
Braunstein | Aye | ||||||||
Kim | Aye | ||||||||
Solages | Aye | ||||||||
Bichotte | Excused | ||||||||
Lentol | Aye | Curran | Aye | ||||||
Schimminger | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Montesano | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Morinello | Aye | ||||||
Cymbrowitz | Aye | Palumbo | Aye | ||||||
Titus | Aye | Garbarino | Aye | ||||||
O'Donnell | Aye | ||||||||
Lavine | Aye | ||||||||
Perry | Aye | ||||||||
Zebrowski | Aye | ||||||||
Abinanti | Aye | ||||||||
Weprin | Aye | ||||||||
Mosley | Aye | ||||||||
Hevesi | Aye | ||||||||
Fahy | Aye | ||||||||
Seawright | Aye | ||||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Oaks | Aye | ||||||
Lentol | Aye | Crouch | Nay | ||||||
Schimminger | Aye | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Gantt | Excused | Fitzpatrick | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Nolan | Aye | Malliotakis | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Walter | Aye | ||||||
Perry | Aye | Montesano | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Curran | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Cahill | Aye | ||||||||
Aubry | Aye | ||||||||
Hooper | Aye | ||||||||
Thiele | Aye | ||||||||
Cusick | Aye | ||||||||
Ortiz | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
Weprin | Excused | ||||||||
Rodriguez | Aye | ||||||||
Ramos | Aye | ||||||||
Braunstein | Aye | ||||||||
McDonald | Excused | ||||||||
Rozic | Aye | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
Simotas | Aye | ||||||||
Heastie | Aye | Kolb | Aye | ||||||
Gottfried | Aye | Oaks | Aye | ||||||
Lentol | Aye | Butler | Aye | ||||||
Gantt | Excused | Crouch | Aye | ||||||
Nolan | Excused | Finch | Aye | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Hooper | Aye | Raia | Aye | ||||||
Ortiz | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | ||||||||
Cook | Aye | ||||||||
Glick | Aye | ||||||||
Morelle | Aye | ||||||||
Aubry | Aye | ||||||||
Englebright | Aye | ||||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | ||||||||
Colton | Aye | ||||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | ||||||||
Perry | Aye | ||||||||
Galef | Aye | ||||||||
Paulin | Aye | ||||||||
Titus | Aye | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
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A09837 Floor Votes:
Yes
Abbate
Yes
Cook
Yes
Garbarino
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Pellegrino
No
Stec
Yes
Abinanti
Yes
Crespo
No
Giglio
Yes
Magee
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Steck
Yes
Arroyo
No
Crouch
Yes
Glick
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Perry
Yes
Stern
Yes
Ashby
Yes
Curran
No
Goodell
No
Malliotakis
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Cusick
Yes
Gottfried
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Pichardo
No
Tague
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Cymbrowitz
Yes
Gunther
Yes
McDonough
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Barnwell
Yes
Davila
No
Hawley
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Quart
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Barrett
Yes
De La Rosa
Yes
Hevesi
No
Miller B
Yes
Ra
Yes
Titone
Yes
Barron
Yes
DenDekker
Yes
Hikind
Yes
Miller MG
Yes
Raia
Yes
Titus
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Dickens
Yes
Hooper
Yes
Miller ML
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Bichotte
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Montesano
Yes
Richardson
Yes
Walker
Yes
Blake
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Morelle
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Wallace
No
Blankenbush
No
DiPietro
Yes
Jaffee
No
Morinello
Yes
Rodriguez
No
Walsh
Yes
Bohen
Yes
D'Urso
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Mosley
Yes
Rosenthal D
Yes
Walter
No
Brabenec
Yes
Englebright
Yes
Jenne
Yes
Murray
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Johns
Yes
Niou
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Brindisi
Yes
Errigo
Yes
Jones
Yes
Nolan
Yes
Ryan
Yes
Williams
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Espinal
Yes
Joyner
No
Norris
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Buchwald
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Kim
No
Oaks
Yes
Schimminger
Yes
Wright
No
Butler
Yes
Fernandez
Yes
Kolb
ER
O'Donnell
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Zebrowski
No
Byrne
Yes
Finch
No
Lalor
Yes
Ortiz
Yes
Simon
Yes
Mr. Speaker
Yes
Cahill
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Otis
Yes
Simotas
Yes
Carroll
No
Friend
No
Lawrence
No
Palmesano
Yes
Skoufis
Yes
Castorina
Yes
Galef
Yes
Lentol
Yes
Palumbo
Yes
Smith
Yes
Colton
ER
Gantt
No
Lifton
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Solages
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A09837 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9837--A IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STECK, GOTTFRIED, DINOWITZ, SKOUFIS, McDONALD, RAIA, BRAUNSTEIN, JEAN-PIERRE, SANTABARBARA, JOHNS, TITONE, KOLB, FINCH, GARBARINO -- read once and referred 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 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. Subdivision 1 of section 4140 of the public health law, as 2 amended by chapter 352 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. The death of each person who has died in this state shall be regis- 5 tered immediately and not later than seventy-two hours after death or 6 the finding of a dead human body, by filing with the registrar of the 7 district in which the death occurred or the body was found a certificate 8 of such death, in a manner and format as prescribed by the commissioner, 9 which shall [include] be through electronic means in accordance with 10 section forty-one hundred forty-eight of this title. 11 § 2. Section 4148 of the public health law, as added by chapter 352 of 12 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows: 13 § 4148. Electronic death registration system. 1. The department is 14 hereby authorized and directed to design, fully implement and maintain 15 an electronic death registration system for collecting, storing, record- 16 ing, transmitting, amending, correcting and authenticating information, 17 as necessary and appropriate to complete a death registration, and to 18 generate such documents as determined by the department in relation to a 19 death occurring in this state. As part of the design and full implemen- 20 tation of the system established by this section, the department shall 21 consult with all persons authorized to use such system to the extent 22 practicable and feasible. The payment referenced in subdivision five of 23 this section shall be collected for each burial or removal permit issued 24 on or after the effective date of this section from the registered 25 funeral firm represented by the licensed funeral director or undertaker EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14592-02-8A. 9837--A 2 1 to whom such permit is issued, in the manner specified by the department 2 and shall be used solely for the purpose set forth in subdivision five 3 of this section. Except as specifically provided in this section, the 4 existing general duties of, and remuneration received by, local regist- 5 rars in accepting and filing certificates of death and issuing burial 6 and removal permits pursuant to any statute or regulation shall be main- 7 tained, and not altered or abridged in any way by this section. 8 2. Commencing on the implementation date[, the department shall9require that] all deaths occurring within this state must be registered 10 using the electronic death registration system established in this 11 section. Electronic death registration may be phased in, as determined 12 by the commissioner, for deaths occurring in the state [until the elec-13tronic death registration system is fully implemented in the state] 14 prior to the implementation date. As used in this section, "implementa- 15 tion date" means [the first day in January in the second year after this16section becomes a law, or as soon thereafter as the commissioner reason-17ably determines by regulation is feasible in light of the intent of this18section] January first, two thousand nineteen. Violations of this 19 section shall be subject to sections twelve and twelve-b of this chap- 20 ter, provided that subdivision four of section twelve of this chapter 21 shall not apply. Penalties shall not be assessed if non-compliance is 22 determined by the department to be attributable to a circumstance or 23 occurrence substantially beyond the control of said person. 24 3. Commencing on the implementation date, all persons required to 25 register a death or file a certificate of death under this article, and 26 such others as may be authorized by the commissioner, shall have access 27 to the electronic death registration system for the purpose of entering 28 information required to execute, complete and file a certificate of 29 death or to retrieve such information or generate documentation from the 30 electronic death registration system. The confidentiality provisions in 31 section forty-one hundred forty-seven of this title shall apply to 32 information maintained in this system. 33 4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, commencing on 34 or after January first, two thousand fifteen[, or on such date deter-35mined by the commissioner pursuant to subdivision two of this section] 36 but no later than the implementation date, any requirement of this title 37 for a signature of any person shall be deemed satisfied by the use by 38 such person of digital signature provided such person is authorized in 39 accordance with this section to use the electronic death registration 40 system. 41 5. [Licensed] For burial and removal permits, licensed funeral direc- 42 tors and undertakers shall support the establishment and maintenance of 43 the electronic death registration system through a payment, tendered for 44 each burial and removal permit issued to a licensed funeral director or 45 undertaker, in the amount of twenty dollars, provided that such payment 46 shall be considered a cost of operation and the funeral director or 47 undertaker shall not charge any additional fee related to such payment 48 for funeral or other services. 49 § 3. Subdivision 3 of section 4171 of the public health law, as 50 amended by chapter 352 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as 51 follows: 52 3. All certificates, either of birth or death, shall be written legi- 53 bly, in durable black ink, provided, however, that commencing on [or54after] the implementation date under section forty-one hundred forty- 55 eight of this article, death certificates shall be completed in accord- 56 ance with section forty-one hundred forty-eight of this article. NoA. 9837--A 3 1 certificate[, whether filed in paper form or death certificate filed2electronically in accordance with section forty-one hundred forty-eight3of this article,] shall be held to be complete and correct that does not 4 supply all of the items of information called for therein, or satisfac- 5 torily account for their omission. 6 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.