Bill Text: NY A08441 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a ten year live kidney donor follow-up study which includes a one thousand dollars per year stipend for participants; provides two thousand dollars for all kidney donors for health-related expenses.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A08441 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08441-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8441

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 29, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  creating  a  live
          kidney  donor  follow-up  study;  and providing for the repeal of such
          provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  4311 to read as follows:
     3    § 4311. New York living kidney donor follow-up study. 1.  The  depart-
     4  ment shall contract with a qualified research team to conduct a prospec-
     5  tive study of living kidney donor health. Such study shall follow people
     6  who  donate  a  kidney  in  New York between January first, two thousand
     7  twenty-four and December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-eight for ten
     8  years whose transplant surgery takes place.  All  donors  who  agree  to
     9  provide  their  follow-up  data  for  use  in  such study will receive a
    10  stipend of one thousand dollars for each year of  follow-up  they  fully
    11  participate  in. The commissioner shall submit a report including recom-
    12  mendations and findings based on this study to the governor, the  tempo-
    13  rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the chairs
    14  of  the  senate and assembly standing committees on health no later than
    15  December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-four and each December  thir-
    16  ty-first thereafter.
    17    2. For the first five years post donation, kidney donors shall each be
    18  entitled  to  up  to  two  thousand  dollars to pay copayments and other
    19  health-related expenses.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    21  deemed repealed January 1, 2039.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06899-01-3