STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 212 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (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