Budget Amendment ID: FY2017-S4-484-R1

Redraft EHS 484

Physician Assistants Signing Off on Death Certificates

Ms. Chandler moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section 27 the following section:-

“SECTION 27A. The fourth paragraph of section 9 of chapter 46 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2014 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:- A physician assistant may take all action required under this section to furnish for registration a standard certificate of death.”.