Bill Text: NY S05313 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes persons 16 years of age or older to make an anatomical gift.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2016-08-18 - SIGNED CHAP.248 [S05313 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05313-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5313--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 13, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HANNON, FLANAGAN, LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted 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 and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to authorizing persons 16 years of age or older to make an anatomical gift 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 4301 of the public health law, as 2 amended by chapter 348 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. (a) Any individual of sound mind and eighteen years of age or more 5 may give all or any part of his or her body for any purpose specified in 6 section forty-three hundred two of this article, the gift to take effect 7 upon death. In any case where the donor has properly executed an organ 8 donor card, driver's license authorization to make an anatomical gift, 9 pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section five hundred 10 four of the vehicle and traffic law, registered in the New York state 11 organ and tissue donor registry under section forty-three hundred ten of 12 this article, or has otherwise given written authorization for organ or 13 tissue donation, authorization for donation shall not be rescinded by an 14 objection by a member of any of the classes specified in paragraphs (a) 15 through (h) of subdivision two of this section, except upon a showing 16 that the donor revoked the authorization. 17 (b) Any person who is sixteen or seventeen years of age and of sound 18 mind may give all or any part of his or her body for any purpose speci- 19 fied in section forty-three hundred two of this article, the gift to 20 take effect upon death. In any case where the donor has properly 21 executed an organ donor card, driver's license authorization to make an EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10496-05-6
