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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7738
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 7, 2022
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the county law, the public health law and the  executive
          law, in relation to reporting veteran suicide
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 677 of the county law,  as  added
     2  by  a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the county law and the execu-
     3  tive law relating to the reporting of a veteran's suicide,  as  proposed
     4  in legislative bills numbers S. 2036-B and A. 3237-A, is amended to read
     5  as follows:
     6    10.  (a)  The  coroner,  coroner's physician or medical examiner shall
     7  report to the division of veterans' services, in a form, and time  frame
     8  developed  by  [such division] the department of health in a manner that
     9  is protective of privacy and contains aggregate, rather than  individual
    10  data  to the extent practicable, any death which appears to be caused by
    11  suicide by a person who, to the  knowledge  of  the  coroner,  coroner's
    12  physician or medical examiner, is a veteran.
    13    (b)  For  the purposes of this subdivision, veteran means a person who
    14  served in the United States army, navy, air force, space  force,  marine
    15  corps, coast guard, and/or reserves thereof, and/or in the army national
    16  guard, air national guard, New York guard and/or New York naval militia,
    17  and/or  who served as a member of the commissioned corps of the national
    18  oceanic and atmospheric  administration  or  the  United  States  public
    19  health service regardless of discharge status.
    20    §  1-a.  Subdivision  1  of  section  201  of the public health law is
    21  amended by adding a new paragraph (y) to read as follows:
    22    (y) To develop a form by  which  a  coroner,  coroner's  physician  or
    23  medical  examiner,  pursuant to section six hundred seventy-seven of the
    24  county law, shall report to the division of veterans' services any death
    25  which appears to be caused by suicide by a person who, to the  knowledge
    26  of  the  coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner, is a veteran.
    27  This form shall at a minimum: (i) ensure compliance with  the  strictest
    28  privacy  protections and encourage data aggregation to the extent feasi-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03672-06-2
        S. 7738                             2
 
     1  ble; (ii) provide the address to which the  form  is  to  be  mailed  or
     2  submitted  electronically; and (iii) include the county of residence and
     3  the branch of service of deceased veterans during the reporting period.
     4    § 2. Subdivision 26 of section 353 of the executive law, as added by a
     5  chapter  of  the  laws of 2021 amending the county law and the executive
     6  law relating to the reporting of a veteran's  suicide,  as  proposed  in
     7  legislative bills numbers S. 2036-B and A. 3237-A, is amended to read as
     8  follows:
     9    26.  [(a) To develop a form by which a coroner, coroner's physician or
    10  medical examiner, pursuant to section six hundred seventy-seven  of  the
    11  county law, shall report to the division any death which appears to be a
    12  suicide  by  a  person  who,  to the knowledge of the coroner, coroner's
    13  physician or medical examiner, is a veteran. This form shall at a  mini-
    14  mum:  (i)  ensure  compliance with the strictest privacy protections and
    15  encourage data aggregation to the  extent  feasible;  (ii)  provide  the
    16  address  to  which the form is to be mailed or submitted electronically;
    17  and (iii) include the county of residence and the branch of  service  of
    18  deceased veterans during the reporting period.
    19    (b)]  The  division shall: (i) forward completed forms received from a
    20  coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner pursuant to section six
    21  hundred seventy-seven of the county law to the office of mental  hygiene
    22  pursuant to subdivision (g) of section 7.07 of the mental hygiene law in
    23  a  timely manner; and (ii) compile such information for inclusion in the
    24  annual report pursuant to this section.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    26  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2021, amending the county law and the
    27  executive  law  relating  to  the  reporting  of a veteran's suicide, as
    28  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2036-B and A.  3237-A  ,  takes
    29  effect.