Bill Text: NY A05179 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes permanent the provisions of Lauren's law, providing for the election to or declining to elect to register in the donate life registry for organ and tissue donation.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-02 - substituted by s1206 [A05179 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05179-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5179
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, GOTTFRIED, GALEF, McDONOUGH, MOSLEY, McDO-
          NALD,  COLTON,  ZEBROWSKI, SKOUFIS, THIELE, TITONE, BENEDETTO, CAHILL,
          HYNDMAN, BLAKE, STIRPE, STECK, WALKER -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of
          A.  ABBATE, CRESPO, ENGLEBRIGHT, KEARNS, LOPEZ, SCHIMMINGER, SEPULVEDA
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend Lauren's law, in relation to making  the  provisions  of
          such law permanent
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 6 of chapter 465 of the laws of 2012,  constituting
     2  Lauren's  law, as amended by chapter 174 of the laws of 2016, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    § 6. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
     5  law;  provided  that  the commissioners of health and motor vehicles may
     6  implement sections two, four and five of this act within  their  respec-
     7  tive  jurisdictions  before  that date[; and provided, further, that the
     8  provisions of this act shall expire and be deemed repealed  seven  years
     9  after such effective date].
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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