STATE OF NEW YORK
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1807--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. FERNANDEZ, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted 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.
LBD01554-03-5
