 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6815
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      May 10, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        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.
                                                                   LBD10401-03-3
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