Assembly Bill A10620

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for eye and tissue donation

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A10620 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
County Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §671, County L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10046
2019-2020: A6003, A6582
2021-2022: A6010

2023-A10620 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2023-A10620 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10620
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 20, 2024
                                ___________
 
 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:

   Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 671 of the coun-
 ty  law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended and a
 new paragraph (c) is added to read as follows:
   (b) shall make inquiry into all deaths whether natural or unnatural in
 [his or her] THEIR county occurring to an incarcerated individual  of  a
 correctional  facility  as defined by subdivision three of section forty
 of the correction law, whether or not the  death  occurred  inside  such
 facility[.];
   (C)  SHALL DEVELOP A PROTOCOL FOR MAKING REFERRALS OF DEATHS THAT FALL
 UNDER THEIR JURISDICTION AND OCCUR OUTSIDE OF A HOSPITAL. THIS  PROTOCOL
 SHALL  INCLUDE, BUT SHALL NOT BE LIMITED TO, REQUIRING A CALL BE MADE TO
 THE FEDERALLY DESIGNATED ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION.  THE  FEDERALLY
 DESIGNATED  ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION WILL THEN MAKE DONOR REGISTRY
 VERIFICATION AND A DONOR SUITABILITY DETERMINATION.
   § 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

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