Permits the redaction of certain physician's names on birth certificates when such physician's license to practice medicine has been surrendered or revoked by the office of professional medical conduct.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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92
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- 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 redaction of
certain physician's names on birth certificates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 4134-a to read as follows:
3 § 4134-a. Birth certificate; listed physician. 1. When the license to
4 practice medicine of an attending physician listed on a birth record has
5 been surrendered or revoked by the office of professional medical
6 conduct, and upon request by either (i) the person whose birth the
7 record documents, if eighteen years of age or older, or that person's
8 legal representative or (ii) the parent or legal representative of a
9 person under the age of eighteen whose birth the record documents, the
10 department shall issue a certified copy of the birth record with the
11 identity of such physician redacted.
12 2. Such request shall be made in the form or manner to be provided or
13 approved by the department.
14 3. Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring a court
15 order to authorize the redaction of a physician's name pursuant to this
16 section.
17 § 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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