A212 • 2025

Relates to decreasing the electronic death registration system fee for funeral directors and undertakers

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Sponsor: Phil Steck
Last action: 2026-06-22
Official status: Stricken
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to decreasing the electronic death registration system fee for funeral directors and undertakers

Relates to decreasing the electronic death registration system fee for funeral directors and undertakers Relates to decreasing the electronic death registration system fee for funeral directors and undertakers from twenty to five dollars.

What This Bill Does

Relates to decreasing the electronic death registration system fee for funeral directors and undertakers Relates to decreasing the electronic death registration system fee for funeral directors and undertakers from twenty to five dollars.

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Bill History

2026-06-22 Assembly
ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH
2025-01-08 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Relates to decreasing the electronic death registration system fee for funeral directors and undertakers
Relates to decreasing the electronic death registration system fee for funeral directors and undertakers from twenty to five dollars.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           212

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       (PREFILED)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  decreasing  the
          electronic  death  registration  system  fee for funeral directors and
          undertakers

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 4148 of the public health law, as
     2  added by chapter 352 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     3    5. Licensed funeral directors and undertakers shall support the estab-
     4  lishment and maintenance of the  electronic  death  registration  system
     5  through a payment, tendered for each burial and removal permit issued to
     6  a  licensed  funeral  director  or undertaker, in the amount of [twenty]
     7  FIVE dollars, provided that such payment shall be considered a  cost  of
     8  operation  and  the  funeral director or undertaker shall not charge any
     9  additional fee related to such payment for funeral or other services.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00345-01-5