Bill Text: NY S08137 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to 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: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S08137 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S08137-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8137--A IN SENATE April 6, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Dalton's Law". 2 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 671 of the county law, 3 as amended by chapter 491 of the laws of 1987, is amended and a new 4 paragraph (c) is added to read as follows: 5 (b) shall make inquiry into all deaths whether natural or unnatural in 6 his county occurring to an inmate of a correctional facility as defined 7 by subdivision three of section forty of the correction law, whether or 8 not the death occurred inside such 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 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14958-05-8