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A 2311: Prohibits charging a fee for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or pregnancy loss.
What A 2311 does, verified November 22, 2025
The bill aims to prohibit the charging of fees for the issuance of certificates for stillbirth or fetal death. The registrar is required to issue a certificate without any fee. Local registrars are also prohibited from charging fees for the issuance of certificates for fetal death. The bill takes effect immediately.
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✓GovernorComplete
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Last action: approval memo.6 (2025-11-21)Alert me
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| Nov. 21, 2025 | approval memo.6 |
| Nov. 21, 2025 | signed chap.510 |
| Nov. 17, 2025 | delivered to governor |
| Jun. 10, 2025 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY |
| Jun. 10, 2025 | PASSED SENATE |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 16, 2025 · 236 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2311 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZACCARO, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, CRUZ, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, HEVESI, HYNDMAN, SIMPSON, GRAY, NOVAKHOV, McDONOUGH, DeSTEFANO, MIKU- LIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting charg- es for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or fetal death The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 4160-a of the public health law, 2 as added by chapter 552 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 9. The registrar [may] shall not charge [a] any fee for the issuance 5 of a certificate under this section [equal to the fee authorized by law6for the certification of a birth or death]. 7 § 2. Section 4160 of the public health law is amended by adding a new 8 subdivision 6 to read as follows: 9 6. A local registrar shall not charge a fee for the issuance of a 10 certificate of fetal death under this article. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01554-01-5
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