Bill Text: NY A07916 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires written in-person or electronic notifications to be utilized for registration in the donate life registry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-11-23 - approval memo.31 [A07916 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07916-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7916--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PEOPLES-STOKES,  GOTTFRIED  -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on
          Health 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 public health law, in relation to requiring written
          in-person or electronic notifications to be utilized for  registration
          in the donate life registry

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision  3  of  section  4310  of  the
     2  public health law, as added by section 27 of part A of chapter 60 of the
     3  laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c) provision of written or electronic notification of registration in
     5  the  donate  life registry to an individual enrolling in the donate life
     6  registry;  provided,  however,  that  written  in-person  or  electronic
     7  notifications  shall  be  utilized  wherever  possible  as  methods  for
     8  fulfillment of the purposes of this paragraph; and
     9    § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 5 of  section  4310  of  the  public
    10  health law, as amended by section 27 of part A of chapter 60 of the laws
    11  of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
    12    (c)  Enrollment  or  amendment  or  revocation through the donate life
    13  registry website through any of the means listed in this subdivision may
    14  be signed by electronic signature, in accordance with the provisions  of
    15  article three of the state technology law, supported by the use of suit-
    16  able  mechanisms  including  unique identifiers to provide confidence in
    17  the identity of the  person  providing  the  electronic  signature.  The
    18  registration  shall  take  effect upon the provision of written or elec-
    19  tronic notice of the registration to the  individual  enrolling  in  the
    20  donate  life  registry  and  the  registry's receipt of the individual's
    21  enrollment data; provided, however, that written in-person or electronic
    22  notifications  shall  be  utilized  wherever  possible  as  methods  for
    23  fulfillment of the purposes of this paragraph.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11627-02-2
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