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- Referred to higher education
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 58–3
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.14
- Referred to health
- Committed to rules
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.271
- Referred to health
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Authorizes nurse practitioners to sign death certificates in like manner as physicians and imposes upon nurse practitioners the same duties that physicians have
In Assembly Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Susan John
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to death certificates
Purpose or general idea of bill
This bill authorizes nurse practitioners to sign death certificates in like manner as physicians and imposes upon nurse practitioners the same duties that physicians have.
Summary of specific provisions
This bill amends Public Health. Law, sections 4100, 4104, 4141, 4141-a, 4142, 4144, 4161, 4171, and 4175 to include nurse practitioners as persons able to issue death certificates.
Justification
Under existing law, nurse practitioners are unable to issue death certificates. Nurse practitioners are frequently the care givers in last attendance when a patient passes away. With their extensive training and expertise, they are more than qualified under their existing scope of practice to perform this function.
Prior legislative history
A.7206 of 2003-04: Passed Assembly A.5220A of 2005-06: Vetoed memo. 251 A.7074-C of 2007-08: Passed Assembly
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the 180th day after it shall have become a law.
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