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History
- Substituted by A1747
- Ordered to third reading cal.1470
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Reported and committed to higher education
- Notice of committee consideration - requested
- 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
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Aileen Gunther
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S325
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
2003-04: Passed Assembly; 2005-06: Vetoed Memo. 251; 2007-08: Passed Assembly; 2009-10, Passed Senate, Died in 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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