Bill Text: NY A04990 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes persons 16 years of age or older to make an anatomical gift.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 41-12)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-09 - substituted by s5313a [A04990 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04990-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4990--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 10, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ORTIZ, CLARK, PALMESANO, SKOUFIS, GALEF, FAHY,
          JAFFEE, LUPINACCI, GOODELL, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of
          A.  OAKS,  TENNEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
          -- reported and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accord-
          ance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law and the vehicle and traffic law,
          in relation to authorizing persons 16 years of age or older to make an
          anatomical gift
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 4301 of the public health law, as
     2  amended by chapter 348 of the laws  of  2009,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  (a) Any individual of sound mind and eighteen years of age or more
     5  may give all or any part of his or her body for any purpose specified in
     6  section forty-three hundred two of this article, the gift to take effect
     7  upon death. In any case where the donor has properly executed  an  organ
     8  donor  card,  driver's license authorization to make an anatomical gift,
     9  pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision one  of  section  five  hundred
    10  four  of  the  vehicle and traffic law, registered in the New York state
    11  organ and tissue donor registry under section forty-three hundred ten of
    12  this article, or has otherwise given written authorization for organ  or
    13  tissue donation, authorization for donation shall not be rescinded by an
    14  objection  by a member of any of the classes specified in paragraphs (a)
    15  through (h) of subdivision two of this section, except  upon  a  showing
    16  that the donor revoked the authorization.
    17    (b)  Any  person who is sixteen or seventeen years of age and of sound
    18  mind may give all or any part of his or her body for any purpose  speci-
    19  fied  in  section  forty-three  hundred two of this article, the gift to
    20  take effect upon death.  In  any  case  where  the  donor  has  properly
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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