Bill Text: NY A08521 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for the remote witnessing of health care proxies utilizing audio-video technology or telephone.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-02-07 - signed chap.33 [A08521 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A08521-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8521 IN ASSEMBLY January 5, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the state technology law, in relation to providing for the remote conduct of witnessing health care proxies 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 307 of the state technology law, 2 as amended by chapter 222 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. To any document providing for the disposition of an individual's 5 person or property upon death or incompetence, or appointing a fiduciary 6 of an individual's person or property, including, without limitation, 7 wills, trusts, decisions consenting to orders not to resuscitate, and 8 powers of attorney [and health care proxies], with the exception of: (a) 9 contractual beneficiary designations; (b) the registration of making, 10 amending, or revoking an anatomical gift under section forty-three 11 hundred ten of the public health law; and (c) documents and forms 12 authorizing or accepting funeral, cemetery and cremation services. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 14 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public health law 15 relating to providing for the remote conduct of witnessing health care 16 proxies, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5100 and A. 2190, 17 takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01025-02-4
