Adds domestic partner, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews of the deceased individual or the lawful representative of such persons to receive death certificates.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6815
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 10, 2023
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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 death certificates
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 1 of section 4174 of the
2 public health law, as amended by chapter 130 of the laws of 2012, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) upon request, issue to any applicant either a certified copy or a
5 certified transcript of the record of any death registered under the
6 provisions of this chapter (1) when a documented medical need has been
7 demonstrated, (2) when a documented need to establish a legal right or
8 claim has been demonstrated, (3) when needed for medical or scientific
9 research approved by the commissioner, (4) when needed for statistical
10 or epidemiological purposes approved by the commissioner, (5) upon
11 specific request by municipal, state or federal agencies for statistical
12 or official purposes, (6) upon specific request of the agent, as desig-
13 nated pursuant to subdivision three of section four thousand two hundred
14 one of this chapter, spouse, domestic partner, children, siblings [or],
15 parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces or nephews of the
16 deceased or the lawful representative of such persons, or (7) pursuant
17 to the order of a court of competent jurisdiction on a showing of neces-
18 sity; except no certified copy or certified transcript of a death record
19 shall be subject to disclosure under article six of the public officers
20 law;
21 § 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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