STATE OF NEW YORK
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2311--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 16, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ZACCARO, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, CRUZ, BICHOTTE HERMELYN,
HEVESI, HYNDMAN, SIMPSON, GRAY, NOVAKHOV, McDONOUGH, DeSTEFANO, MIKU-
LIN, YEGER, BURDICK, McDONALD, COLTON, STECK, PHEFFER AMATO, BEEPHAN,
EPSTEIN, REYES -- 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 prohibiting charg-
es for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or pregnancy loss
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 4160-a of the public health law,
2 as added by chapter 552 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 9. The registrar [may] shall not charge [a] any fee for the issuance
5 of a certificate under this section [equal to the fee authorized by law
6 for the certification of a birth or death].
7 § 2. Section 4160 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
8 subdivision 6 to read as follows:
9 6. A local registrar shall not charge a fee for the issuance of a
10 certificate of pregnancy loss under this article.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01554-02-5
