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S02510 Summary:

BILL NOS02510A

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SAME ASSAME AS A05424-A

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SPONSORSALAZAR

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COSPNSRBASKIN, CLEARE, GOUNARDES, JACKSON, SEPULVEDA

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§674 & 677, County L

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Establishes the Terry Cooper autopsy accountability act requiring autopsy reports to include all photographs of the body, microscopic slides, and post-mortem x-rays taken by, at the direction of, or reviewed by the person performing the autopsy.

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BILL NOS02510A

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01/21/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

02/25/20251ST REPORT CAL.382

02/26/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/03/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/04/2025AMENDED ON THIRD READING 2510A

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2510--A
 Cal. No. 382

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. SALAZAR, CLEARE, GOUNARDES, SEPULVEDA -- read twice
 and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
 on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction -- reported favorably from said
 committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third
 reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the
 order of third reading

 AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to requiring autopsy reports
 to include photographs, microscopic slides, and post-mortem x-rays
 taken by, at the direction of, or reviewed by the person performing
 the autopsy

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

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Terry
 2 Cooper autopsy accountability act".
 3 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 674 of the county law, as amended by
 4 chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 5 5. Notwithstanding section six hundred seventy of this article or any
 6 other provision of law, the coroner, coroner's physician or medical
 7 examiner shall promptly perform or cause to be performed an autopsy and
 8 to prepare an autopsy report which shall include a toxicological report
 9 and any report of any examination or inquiry with respect to any death
 10 occurring within [his or her] such coroner's, coroner's physician's or
 11 medical examiner's county to an incarcerated individual of a correction-
 12 al facility as defined by subdivision three of section forty of the
 13 correction law, whether or not the death occurred inside such facility.
 14 For the purposes of this subdivision, in addition to anything else
 15 required by law, an autopsy report shall include all photographs of the
 16 body, microscopic slides, and post-mortem x-rays taken by or at the
 17 direction of the person performing the autopsy, and all photographs,
 18 microscopic slides, and post-mortem x-rays reviewed by the person
 19 performing the autopsy in the course of their examination or in the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05959-05-5

 S. 2510--A 2

 1 course of their diagnosis of the cause of death and the means or manner
 2 of death.
 3 § 3. Subdivision 6 of section 677 of the county law, as amended by
 4 chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 5 6. Notwithstanding section six hundred seventy of this article or any
 6 other provision of law, the coroner, coroner's physician or medical
 7 examiner shall promptly provide the [chairman] chairperson of the
 8 correction medical review board and the commissioner of corrections and
 9 community supervision with copies of any autopsy report, toxicological
 10 report or any report of any examination or inquiry prepared with respect
 11 to any death occurring to an incarcerated individual of a correctional
 12 facility as defined by subdivision three of section forty of the
 13 correction law within [his or her] their county; and shall promptly
 14 provide the executive director of the justice center for the protection
 15 of people with special needs with copies of any a