Bill Text: NY S05032 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to adding embryo to the definition of "tissue" for purposes of tissue storage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-01 - PRINT NUMBER 5032A [S05032 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05032-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5032--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 3, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. HOYLMAN, RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adding "embryo" to
          the definition of "tissue" for purposes of tissue storage

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 4360 of the public health law, as
     2  added by chapter 589 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
     3    10. "Tissue" means a human eye, skin, bone, bone marrow, heart  valve,
     4  spermatozoon,  ova,  embryo,  artery,  vein, tendon, ligament, pituitary
     5  gland or a fluid other than blood or a blood derivative.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11044-04-0