Bill Text: NY A00621 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that tissue or non-transplant organs from cadaveric donors shall be procured only in a hospital, morgue or other facility licensed for the purpose of tissue or organ procurement.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to health [A00621 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00621-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          621
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the procurement of
         tissue or non-transplant organs from cadaveric donors
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 4364 of the public health law, as
    2  added by chapter 589 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
    3    5. No hospital or other facility and no  physician  shall  permit  any
    4  person to procure tissue or non-transplant organs unless such person has
    5  been  licensed  in accordance with this article[, or has been asked by a
    6  licensed bank or storage facility] to  procure  a  specified  tissue  or
    7  non-transplant  organ.  No bank or storage facility shall sell or other-
    8  wise transfer tissue for valuable consideration.  Valuable consideration
    9  shall not include reasonable  costs  associated  with  the  procurement,
   10  processing,  storage  and  distribution of tissue.  Nothing herein shall
   11  impair the provisions of section forty-three hundred seven of this chap-
   12  ter.
   13    S 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 4311  to
   14  read as follows:
   15    S  4311. PROCUREMENT OF TISSUE OR NON-TRANSPLANT ORGANS FROM CADAVERIC
   16  DONORS.  TISSUE OR NON-TRANSPLANT ORGANS FROM CADAVERIC DONORS SHALL  BE
   17  PROCURED  ONLY  IN A HOSPITAL, MORGUE OR OTHER FACILITY LICENSED FOR THE
   18  PURPOSES OF TISSUE OR ORGAN PROCUREMENT.
   19    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   20  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
   21  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
   22  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
   23  authorized and directed to be made  and  completed  on  or  before  such
   24  effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05488-01-3