New York A 7630: Relates to the requirements for licensure of funeral directors

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A07630 Summary:

BILL NOA07630 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07690

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SPONSORDinowitz

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COSPNSROtis, Steck, Braunstein, McDonald, Rajkumar, Santabarbara, Hevesi, Lunsford, Woerner

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§3400, 3401 & 3421, add §§3421-a & 3421-b, Pub Health L

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Relates to the requirements for licensure of funeral directors; specifies requirements for a residency period under the direct supervision of a preceptor; sets requirements to act as a preceptor.

Go to top A07630 Actions:

BILL NOA07630 

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04/01/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

05/15/2026amend and recommit to health

05/15/2026print number 7630a

05/26/2026amend by restoring to original print 7630

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7630

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 1, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the requirements
 for licensure of funeral directors

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision (k) of section 3400 of the public health law,
 2 as amended by chapter 534 of the laws of 1983, is amended and a new
 3 subdivision (m) is added to read as follows:
 4 (k) "Registered resident" means a person who passed a funeral direct-
 5 ing examination and who is duly registered as such with the department
 6 while in the employ of a registered funeral firm and who is engaged in
 7 the practice of funeral directing under the direct supervision of a
 8 [licensed funeral director or undertaker and embalmer] preceptor;
 9 provided, however, that a registered resident shall not have authority
 10 to sign any form or document required by law which requires the signa-
 11 ture of a licensed funeral director or make funeral arrangements or own
 12 or manage a funeral firm.
 13 (m) "Preceptor" means a person who is licensed and registered as a
 14 funeral director or undertaker and embalmer who is engaged in the prac-
 15 tice of funeral directing regularly employed at a funeral firm and who
 16 is certified by the department as a preceptor.
 17 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3401 of the public health law is amended
 18 to read as follows:
 19 1. The commissioner may, from time to time, make and adopt such rules
 20 and regulations not inconsistent with law as may be necessary (a) in the
 21 performance of [his] their duties and in the administration of the
 22 provisions of this article; [and] (b) to provide requirements for educa-
 23 tion and examination including residency and preceptor standards; and
 24 (c) to govern and regulate the conduct and transaction of the business
 25 and practice of funeral directing, undertaking and embalming.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11276-01-5

 A. 7630 2

 1 § 3. Section 3421 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 534
 2 of the laws of 1983, paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 as amended by chap-
 3 ter 669 of the laws of 2022, paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 and para-
 4 graph (b) of subdivision 4 as amended by chapter 529 of the laws of
 5 2000, is amended to read as follows:
 6 § 3421. Funeral directing; requirements for license to practice. 1. In
 7 order to be licensed, an applicant for licensure shall pass a funeral
 8 directing examination prepared or approved by the department to deter-
 9 mine [his] their knowledge and fitness therefor, as required by this
 10 article. No person shall be permitted to enter funeral director school,
 11 apply for a funeral directing examination or apply for a funeral direct-
 12 ing license without submitting to the department satisfactory evidence
 13 of good moral character.
 14 2. Except as provided in subdivision three, the department shall admit
 15 to examination any applicant who pays a fee of forty dollars and submits
 16 evidence subscribed and affirmed as true under the penalties of perjury
 17 and satisfactory to the department that th