Bill Commons

NY S 5712

in committee

Relates to coroner qualifications

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did NY S 5712 pass?

Not yet. NY S 5712 is in committee as of 2026-01-07 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-01-07): REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

What is NY S 5712 about?

Requires any elected or appointed coroner who is not a licensed physician to be a certified nurse practitioner or licensed physician assistant authorized to practice medicine in this state.

Who sponsors NY S 5712?

James Skoufis is the primary sponsor of NY S 5712.

Description

Requires any elected or appointed coroner who is not a licensed physician to be a certified nurse practitioner or licensed physician assistant authorized to practice medicine in this state.

Introduced
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Latest action
2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • James Skoufisprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-28

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

    referral-committee

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Votes

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Related bills

  • Prior session: S 9443not in this corpus

Official source

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:28:30.722574Z

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