NY A 5624
in committeeEnacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act
New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Description
Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act; requires the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner, to conduct a mental health assessment when a death occurs in such person's jurisdiction; requires death certificates list an underlying mental illness as the cause of death when a person commits suicide; requires life insurance policies to pay upon a suicide which the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner indicated an underlying mental illness as the cause of death.
- Introduced
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- Status date
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- Latest action
- 2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Sponsors
- Nikki Lucasprimary
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-02-18
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
referral-committee
2025-05-06
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
amendment-passage,referral-committee
2025-05-06
PRINT NUMBER 5624A
amendment-passage
2026-01-07
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
referral-committee
Versions
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Votes
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Related bills
- Prior session: A 9027not in this corpus
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