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 Justice — Department of Correction [ and], Department of Probation, and the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice.
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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)
- Summary of Int. No. 2040
- Int. No. 2040
- August 27, 2020 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-27-20
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - August 27, 2020
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.
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