Bill Text: NY A09464 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands support for living organ donation to include living donors who are residents of the state or are making a living donation in which the ultimate recipient is a resident of the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-14 - referred to health [A09464 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09464-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9464

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 14, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BYRNES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding support
          for living organ donation to include living donors who  are  residents
          of  the  state  or  are making a living donation in which the ultimate
          recipient is a resident of the state

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  2 of section 4371 of the
     2  public health law, as amended by chapter 66 of  the  laws  of  2023,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  Subject  to  appropriations  therefor,  the program shall pay the
     5  living donor expenses for living donors: (i) who are  residents  of  the
     6  state  [and  make];  or  (ii)  are making a living donation in which the
     7  ultimate recipient, either directly or  through  paired  donation  is  a
     8  resident of the state. The commissioner through regulations shall estab-
     9  lish  eligible living donor expenses that are eligible for reimbursement
    10  under the program which shall include at a minimum: lost wages  (includ-
    11  ing  demonstrated  lost  non-employment income) or the economic value of
    12  sick or vacation days expended; travel and lodging, child care and elder
    13  care expenses; and costs of medications and  care  associated  with  the
    14  living  donation  surgery  that are not covered by health insurance. The
    15  total period of time related to lost wages or expended sick or  vacation
    16  days shall not exceed four weeks unless special circumstances are demon-
    17  strated,  such  as  the nature of physical labor required for the living
    18  donor's employment; provided that the total period  shall  in  no  event
    19  exceed  eight weeks. The commissioner may, by regulation, impose reason-
    20  able limitations on: (i) the amount of lost wages  for  a  living  donor
    21  making  an income in excess of an annual rate of one hundred twenty-five
    22  thousand dollars; or (ii) the amount  of  living  donor  expenses  above
    23  fourteen  thousand  dollars for any single living donor; and may include
    24  additional living donor expenses including reimbursement  for  costs  of
    25  care performed by relatives or family members of the living donor.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14496-01-4