Bill Text: NY A10620 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for eye and tissue donation; requires coroners to develop a protocol for making referrals of deaths that fall under their jurisdiction and occur outside of a hospital including calling the federally designated organ procurement organization for donor registry verification and a donor suitability determination.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-20 - referred to local governments [A10620 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10620-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10620

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 20, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Woerner,
          Walsh) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to eye and tissue donation

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

     1    Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 671 of the coun-
     2  ty  law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended and a
     3  new paragraph (c) is added to read as follows:
     4    (b) shall make inquiry into all deaths whether natural or unnatural in
     5  [his or her] their county occurring to an incarcerated individual  of  a
     6  correctional  facility  as defined by subdivision three of section forty
     7  of the correction law, whether or not the  death  occurred  inside  such
     8  facility[.];
     9    (c)  shall develop a protocol for making referrals of deaths that fall
    10  under their jurisdiction and occur outside of a hospital. This  protocol
    11  shall  include, but shall not be limited to, requiring a call be made to
    12  the federally designated organ procurement organization.  The  federally
    13  designated  organ procurement organization will then make donor registry
    14  verification and a donor suitability determination.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07901-02-4