· NY legislature · 2025-2026

Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act

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 a…

Sponsor

Nikki Lucas (D-NY)

Introduced

2025-02-18

Policy area

Health

Latest action

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