File #: Int 2373-2021    Version: Name: Amending a transcript of a record of death for a death caused by COVID-19.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 7/29/2021
Enactment date: 11/21/2021 Law number: 2021/139
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to amending a transcript of a record of death for a death caused by COVID-19
Sponsors: Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Kalman Yeger , Justin L. Brannan, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Kevin C. Riley, James G. Van Bramer, Brad S. Lander, Helen K. Rosenthal, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Keith Powers , Peter A. Koo, Eric Dinowitz, Carlina Rivera , Deborah L. Rose, Adrienne E. Adams, Karen Koslowitz, Darma V. Diaz, Daniel Dromm , Francisco P. Moya, Diana I. Ayala, Stephen T. Levin, Antonio Reynoso, Ben Kallos, Farah N. Louis, Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Mathieu Eugene, Inez D. Barron
Council Member Sponsors: 27
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to waive any fee for applicants requesting to amend a death certificate to list the cause of death as COVID-19 or health complications caused by COVID-19.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 2373-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 2373, 3. Int. No. 2373, 4. July 29, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 7-29-21, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - July 29, 2021, 7. Committee Report 9/30/21, 8. Hearing Testimony 9/30/21, 9. Hearing Transcript 9//30/21, 10. Proposed Int. No. 2373-A - 10/14/21, 11. Committee Report 10/21/21, 12. Hearing Transcript 10/21/21, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. October 21, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-21-21, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 21, 2021, 17. Int. No. 2373-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 139
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
11/22/2021ARafael Salamanca, Jr. City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/21/2021ARafael Salamanca, Jr. Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021ARafael Salamanca, Jr. City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021ARafael Salamanca, Jr. City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Health Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Health Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Health Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/2021ARafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Health Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
9/30/2021*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Hospitals Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/30/2021*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Hospitals Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/30/2021*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Health Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/30/2021*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Health Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/29/2021*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/29/2021*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 2373-A

 

By Council Members Salamanca, Yeger, Brannan, Ampry-Samuel, Riley, Van Bramer, Lander, Rosenthal, Brooks-Powers, Powers, Koo, Dinowitz, Rivera, Rose, Adams, Koslowitz, D. Diaz, Dromm, Moya, Ayala, Levin, Reynoso, Kallos, Louis, Cornegy, Eugene and Barron

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to amending a transcript of a record of death for a death caused by COVID-19

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 17-169 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision e to read as follows:

e. The department, in accordance with the authorization in section 207.13 of the New York city health code to waive any fee to correct a transcript of a record of death for good cause, shall not charge a fee for an amendment of such a transcript that would change or supplement the cause of death by citing the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) known as COVID-19, or to health complications related thereto.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

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