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                                   2194
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the vehicle and  traffic  law,
   in  relation  to  establishing  do  not resuscitate orders on drivers'
   licenses and identification cards

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 2994-bb of the public health law,
 as added by chapter 8 of the  laws  of  2010,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  A  nonhospital  order  not to resuscitate may be issued (A) during
 hospitalization to take effect after hospitalization, [or may be issued]
 (B) for a person who is not a patient in, or a resident of, a  hospital,
 (C) ON AN APPLICATION OR RENEWAL FORM OF A DRIVER'S LICENSE, OR (D) ON A
 NON-DRIVER IDENTIFICATION CARD APPLICATION OR RENEWAL FORM.
   §  2.  Section 2994-cc of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
   6. AN ADULT WITH DECISION-MAKING CAPACITY MAY CONSENT TO A NONHOSPITAL
 ORDER NOT TO RESUSCITATE ON AN APPLICATION OR RENEWAL FORM OF A DRIVER'S
 LICENSE OR ON A NON-DRIVER IDENTIFICATION CARD  APPLICATION  OR  RENEWAL
 FORM. CONSENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY SECTIONS FOUR HUNDRED NINETY AND FIVE
 HUNDRED TWO OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW.
   §  3.  The  opening  paragraph of section 2994-ee of the public health
 law, as added by chapter 8 of the laws of 2010, is amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   Obligation to honor a nonhospital order not to resuscitate.  Emergency
 medical services personnel, home care services agency personnel, hospice
 personnel,  or  hospital  emergency  services personnel who are provided
 with a nonhospital order not to resuscitate, [or] who identify the stan-
 dard bracelet on the patient's body, OR WHO IDENTIFY A NONHOSPITAL ORDER
 NOT TO RESUSCITATE ON AN INDIVIDUAL'S  DRIVER'S  LICENSE  OR  NON-DRIVER
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD01204-01-9

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 IDENTIFICATION CARD shall comply with the terms of such order; provided,
 however, that:
   § 4. Section 490 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
   2-A.  ORDER  TO  NOT  RESUSCITATE  DESIGNATION. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
 ENSURE THAT SPACE IS PROVIDED ON THE APPLICATION SO THAT  THE  APPLICANT
 MAY  CONSENT TO OR DECLINE A NONHOSPITAL ORDER NOT TO RESUSCITATE PURSU-
 ANT TO SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR-CC OF THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH
 LAW  AND  THAT  THE  FOLLOWING IS STATED ON THE APPLICATION IN CLEAR AND
 CONSPICUOUS TYPE:
   "YOU MUST FILL OUT THE FOLLOWING SECTION: WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONSENT TO
 A DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE ORDER  WHICH  DIRECTS  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICES
 PERSONNEL,  HOME  CARE  SERVICES AGENCY PERSONNEL, HOSPICE PERSONNEL AND
 HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICES PERSONNEL  NOT  TO  ATTEMPT  CARDIOPULMONARY
 RESUSCITATION  IN  THE  EVENT  THAT  YOU  SUFFER  CARDIAC OR RESPIRATORY
 ARREST? CHECK BOX FOR 'YES' OR 'SKIP THIS QUESTION'."
   FAILURE TO CHECK A "YES" OR CHECKING "SKIP THIS QUESTION" SHALL NOT BE
 CONSTRUED TO IMPLY A WISH TO CONSENT TO AN ORDER NOT TO RESUSCITATE.  IN
 THE  CASE  OF  AN  APPLICANT UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, CHECKING "YES"
 SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE CONSENT TO AN ORDER NOT TO  RESUSCITATE.  WHERE  AN
 APPLICANT  HAS  PREVIOUSLY  CONSENTED  TO  AN  ORDER NOT TO RESUSCITATE,
 CHECKING "SKIP THIS QUESTION" OR FAILING TO CHECK A BOX SHALL NOT IMPAIR
 THAT CONSENT.
   § 5. Section 502 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
   1-A. ORDER TO NOT  RESUSCITATE  DESIGNATION.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL
 ENSURE  THAT  SPACE IS PROVIDED ON THE APPLICATION SO THAT THE APPLICANT
 MAY CONSENT TO OR DECLINE A NONHOSPITAL ORDER NOT TO RESUSCITATE  PURSU-
 ANT  TO  SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR-CC OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH
 LAW AND THAT THE FOLLOWING IS STATED ON THE  APPLICATION  IN  CLEAR  AND
 CONSPICUOUS TYPE:
   "YOU MUST FILL OUT THE FOLLOWING SECTION: WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONSENT TO
 A  DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE  ORDER  WHICH  DIRECTS  EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
 PERSONNEL, HOME CARE SERVICES AGENCY PERSONNEL,  HOSPICE  PERSONNEL  AND
 HOSPITAL  EMERGENCY  SERVICES  PERSONNEL  NOT TO ATTEMPT CARDIOPULMONARY
 RESUSCITATION IN THE  EVENT  THAT  YOU  SUFFER  CARDIAC  OR  RESPIRATORY
 ARREST? CHECK BOX FOR 'YES' OR 'SKIP THE QUESTION'."
   FAILURE  TO CHECK A "YES" OR CHECKING "SKIP THE QUESTION" SHALL NOT BE
 CONSTRUED TO IMPLY A WISH TO CONSENT TO AN ORDER NOT TO RESUSCITATE.  IN
 THE  CASE  OF  AN  APPLICANT UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, CHECKING "YES"
 SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE CONSENT TO AN ORDER NOT TO  RESUSCITATE.  WHERE  AN
 APPLICANT  HAS  PREVIOUSLY  CONSENTED  TO  AN  ORDER NOT TO RESUSCITATE,
 CHECKING "SKIP THIS QUESTION" OR FAILING TO CHECK A BOX SHALL NOT IMPAIR
 THAT CONSENT.
   § 6. Subdivision 1 of section 504 of the vehicle and  traffic  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (a-2) to read as follows:
   (A-2)  EVERY LICENSE OR RENEWAL THEREOF SHALL CONTAIN A DISTINGUISHING
 MARK AND ADEQUATE SPACE UPON WHICH CONSENT TO A NONHOSPITAL ORDER NOT TO
 RESUSCITATE PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-NINE  HUNDRED  NINETY-FOUR-CC  OF
 THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH  LAW,  BY  THE  LICENSEE SHALL BE RECORDED AND SHALL
 CONTAIN SUCH OTHER INFORMATION AND SHALL BE ISSUED IN SUCH FORM  AS  THE
 COMMISSIONER  SHALL  DETERMINE;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  EVERY  LICENSE  OR
 RENEWAL THEREOF ISSUED TO A PERSON CONSENTING TO A NONHOSPITAL ORDER NOT
 TO RESUSCITATE SHALL HAVE PROMINENTLY PRINTED UPON  THE  FRONT  OF  SUCH
 LICENSE OR RENEWAL THEREOF THE STATEMENT "D.N.R." IN NOTABLY DISTINCTIVE
 PRINT OR FORMAT.

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   §  7.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided that the commissioner of motor vehicles  may
 implement sections four, five, and six of this act before that date.