Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act; requires the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner, to conduct a mental health assessment when a death occurs in such person's jurisdiction; requires death certificates list an underlying mental illness as the cause of death when a person commits suicide; requires life insurance policies to pay upon a suicide which the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner indicated an underlying mental illness as the cause of death.

Statutes affected:
A5624: 674 county law, 674(3) county law
A5624A: 674 county law, 674(3) county law, 4141 public health law, 4141(4) public health law, 3203 insurance law, 3203(b) insurance law, 3209 insurance law, 3209(e) insurance law, 3220 insurance law, 3220(a) insurance law, 4510 insurance law, 4510(b) insurance law