New York A 8214: Provides for a window of eighteen months for people to receive certain vital records without paying a fee

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A08214 Summary:

BILL NOA08214 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSayegh

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COSPNSRReyes

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Amd §§4173, 4174 & 4139, Pub Health L; amd §20-a, Dom Rel L

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Provides for a window of eighteen months for people to receive birth, death, marriage, and dissolution of marriage records without paying a fee.

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BILL NOA08214 

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05/05/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8214

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the domestic relations law, in
 relation to providing for a window of eighteen months for people to
 receive certain vital records without paying a fee; and providing for
 the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

 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 "Protect
 2 Our Vote Act" or the "POV Act".
 3 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 4173 of the public health law, as
 4 amended by chapter 288 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
 5 follows:
 6 3. [(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this subdivi-
 7 sion, the registrar shall be entitled to a fee of ten dollars for each
 8 certification of birth or death or for each certified copy or certified
 9 transcript of any record of a birth or of a death or for a certification
 10 that a search discloses no record of a birth or of a death, furnished by
 11 him to an applicant, except that no fee shall be charged for a search,
 12 certification of birth or death or certified copy or certified tran-
 13 script of a birth or a death record to be used for school entrance,
 14 employment certificate or for purposes of public relief or government
 15 compensation or when required by the veterans administration to be used
 16 in determining the eligibility of any person to participate in the bene-
 17 fits made available by the veterans administration, provided, however,
 18 that if such registrar is a city clerk, town clerk or village clerk, he
 19 shall collect such fees for and on behalf of the city, town or village
 20 in which he serves, provided, however, that an amount equivalent to the
 21 sum of such fees shall be paid at least monthly by such city, town or
 22 village to such city clerk, town clerk or village clerk entitled to
 23 receive fees as a registrar of vital statistics.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11790-01-5

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 1 (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subdivision, in the follow-
 2 ing county jurisdictions the fee shall be set by the county health
 3 commissioner: Chemung, Monroe, Onondaga, Tompkins; and in the following
 4 local jurisdictions the fee shall be set by the local legislative body:
 5 city of Oswego, city of Albany, city of Jamestown. In such jurisdic-
 6 tions, the fee may be set up to the amount charged by the commissioner
 7 as prescribed in subdivision two of section forty-one hundred seventy-
 8 four of this title.] The registrar shall not be entitled to any fee for
 9 any certification of birth or death or for any certified copy or certi-
 10 fied transcript of any record of a birth or of a death or for any
 11 certification that a search discloses no record of a birth or of a
 12 death, furnished by the registrar to an applicant.
 13 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 4174 of the public health law, as
 14 amended by section 2 of part W2 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, is
 15 amended to read as follows:
 16 2. Each applicant for a certification of birth or death, certificate
 17 of birth data or for a certified copy or certified transcript of a birth
 18 or death certificate or certificate of birth data shall not be required
 19 to remit to the commissioner with such application [a] any fee [of thir-
 20 ty dollars in payment for the search of t