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Int 2040-2020

Reporting on Hart Island burials related to COVID-19.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Criminal Justiceintroduced 2020-08-27

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2020-08-27Passed: 2021-12-31

Summary

This bill would require the Department of Corrections (DOC) to include information about the number of burials that were related to deaths caused by COVID-19 in the agency’s electronic database of people buried at Hart Island.

Committee on Criminal JusticeDepartment of Correction [ and], Department of Probation, and the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice.

How it compares

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19 passed · 31 died

This bill: 490 days in committee

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Sponsors (7)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2020-08-27 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2020-08-27 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2021-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2020-08-27 · 1:30 PM · - REMOTE HEARING (VIRTUAL ROOM 1) -

Attachments (5)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Section 9-132 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 120 for the year 2013, is amended to read as follows: � 9-132 Hart's Island electronic burial database. a. For the purposes of this section, the term "COVID-19" means the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). [a] b. The department of correction shall post and maintain an electronic database of all burials on Hart's Island since [nineteen hundred seventy-seven] 1977 on the department's website, and shall not charge a fee to the public to search such database. Such database shall also provide the total number of burials that were related to a death caused by COVID-19, disaggregated by month. � 2. This local law takes effect immediately. BM LS # 14674 7/24/2020 9:00 am 1 2 6 2