Bill Text: NY A00423 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain disclosures by sperm and ovum storage facilities to inform clients relating to the inheritance rights of a posthumously conceived child from the utilization of such sperm or ovum.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-04 - reported referred to rules [A00423 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00423-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         423--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs  and  Protection  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
          in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee
        AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          certain disclosures by sperm and ovum storage facilities
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  391-u to read as follows:
     3    § 391-u. Disclosure statement by sperm or ovum storage facility.   Any
     4  medical  facility, or other facility, engaged in the business of provid-
     5  ing the storage of sperm  or  ovum  shall,  prior  to  engaging  in  any
     6  contractual  agreement  with  a  client for such storage, provide to the
     7  client written notification of the  provisions  of  sections  4-1.3  and
     8  11-1.5 of the estates, powers and trusts law relating to the inheritance
     9  rights  of  a child posthumously conceived from the utilization of sperm
    10  or ovum stored with such facility.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06336-04-8