Bill Text: NY A10163 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "New York saves lives act" to authorize any New York state resident aged sixteen and older to register as an organ, eye and tissue donor through the New York state donate life registry; adds a New York state donate life registry option on admission applications to the state university of New York and the city university of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - referred to higher education [A10163 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10163-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10163

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Blumencranz)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
          to  expanding  current  educational programming and outreach about the
          need for and importance of organ and tissue donations

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited the
     2  "New York saves lives act".
     3    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public health law is  amended
     4  by adding a new paragraph (s) read as follows:
     5    (s) Any resident of this state sixteen years and older may register to
     6  save  lives  by signing up as an organ, eye and tissue donor through the
     7  New York state donate life registry.
     8    § 3. The education law is amended by adding a  new  section  209-b  to
     9  read as follows:
    10    §  209-b.  New  York state donate life registry option on applications
    11  for admission to the state university of New York. 1.  All  applications
    12  for  admission to the state university of New York shall contain a space
    13  for the applicant to register in the New York state donate life registry
    14  for organ and tissue donations established pursuant  to  section  forty-
    15  three hundred ten of the public health law.
    16    2.  The  chancellor of the state university of New York shall annually
    17  report the number of applicants that elected to register in the New York
    18  state donate life registry to the governor; the temporary  president  of
    19  the  senate;  the  speaker  of  the assembly; the minority leader of the
    20  senate; and the minority leader of the assembly.
    21    § 4. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6235 to read
    22  as follows:
    23    § 6235. New York state donate life registry option on applications for
    24  admission to the city university of New York. 1.  All  applications  for
    25  admission  to  the city university of New York shall contain a space for
    26  the applicant to register in the New York state donate life registry for

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  organ and tissue donations established pursuant to  section  forty-three
     2  hundred ten of the public health law.
     3    2.  The  chancellor  of the city university of New York shall annually
     4  report the number of applicants that elected to register in the New York
     5  state donate life registry to the governor; the temporary  president  of
     6  the  senate;  the  speaker  of  the assembly; the minority leader of the
     7  senate; and the minority leader of the assembly.
     8    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.