NY A00611

Requires physicians or hospital staff to inform gestational parents of their right to access the fetal death report and to direct burial, entombment, or cremation of fetal remains following a spontaneous fetal death at any gestational age

Allows gestational parents to request release of fetal remains from a spontaneous fetal death and obtain a burial/removal permit directly, rather than requiring a funeral director

Updates terminology throughout the public health law from "mother" to "gestational parent"

Expands fetal death registration requirements to cover fetuses of any gestational age, with certificates filed within 72 hours of expulsion

Places all costs associated with release, burial, entombment, or cremation of fetal remains on the gestational parent, with the law taking effect 90 days after enactment