A 4142: Includes information on if a person previously lived in a nursing home on his or her death certificate.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4142 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including informa- tion on if a person previously lived in a nursing home on his or her death certificate The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 4141 of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows: 3 (e) Every certificate shall include, in a separate area, information 4 on if the decedent previously resided in a nursing home issued an oper- 5 ating certificate as a nursing home pursuant to article twenty-eight of 6 this chapter. Such information shall be indicated on the certificate 7 including, if known to the person completing the death certificate, the 8 name of the nursing home, location of the nursing home, and the approxi- 9 mate dates in which the decedent resided in the nursing home. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 11 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06282-01-5