STATE OF NEW YORK
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3363
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 27, 2025
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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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