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Senator · Senate District 59
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History
- Signed chap.323
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading cal.876
- Substituted for A10200A
- Referred to ways and means
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1706
- Print number 7853a
- Amend and recommit to rules
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- Reported and committed to rules
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to health
Companion bill
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Prohibits charging a fee to obtain a death certificate for an inmate who has died under custody
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Nily Rozic
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting charging a fee to obtain a death certificate for an inmate who has died under custody
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends Subdivision 4 of section 4174 of the public health law
Section 2 Section 4179 of the public health law
Section 3 is the effective date.
Justification
In 2010, legislation was enacted to provide birth certificates from the state health department and the NYC bureau of vital statistics at no charge to state and local correctional facilities as well as to NYC DOC. This bill modifies existing law to include the provision of death certificates for those inmates who die under custody, streamlining the provision of such certificates and thus saving correctional facilities and municipalities, unnecessary administration and delay for what amounts to inter-agency ministerial services. Because fewer than 200 inmates from across the state die under custody each year it is expected that the financial burden of this bill upon city and counties is negligible.
Legislative history of bill
This is a new bill.
Fiscal implications
Negligible. Total under custody deaths are generally fewer than 200 per year including state and local correctional facility inmate deaths.
Effective date
90 days.
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