STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1807 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. FERNANDEZ, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting charg- es for the issuance of a certificate of still birth or fetal death The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 4160-a of the public health law, 2 as added by chapter 552 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 9. The registrar [may] shall not charge [a] any fee for the issuance 5 of a certificate under this section [equal to the fee authorized by law 6 for the certification of a birth or death]. 7 § 2. Section 4160 of the public health law is amended by adding a new 8 subdivision 6 to read as follows: 9 6. A local registrar shall not charge a fee for the issuance of a 10 certificate of fetal death under this article. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01554-01-5