Assembly Bill A8441

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Creates a live kidney donor follow-up study

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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-A8441 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3487
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §4311, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S8260

2023-A8441 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a ten year live kidney donor follow-up study which includes a one thousand dollars per year stipend for participants; provides two thousand dollars for all kidney donors for health-related expenses.

2023-A8441 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8441
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 29, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  creating  a  live
   kidney  donor  follow-up  study;  and providing for the repeal of such
   provisions upon expiration thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 4311 to read as follows:
   § 4311. NEW YORK LIVING KIDNEY DONOR FOLLOW-UP STUDY. 1.  THE  DEPART-
 MENT SHALL CONTRACT WITH A QUALIFIED RESEARCH TEAM TO CONDUCT A PROSPEC-
 TIVE STUDY OF LIVING KIDNEY DONOR HEALTH. SUCH STUDY SHALL FOLLOW PEOPLE
 WHO  DONATE  A  KIDNEY  IN  NEW YORK BETWEEN JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-FOUR AND DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-EIGHT FOR TEN
 YEARS WHOSE TRANSPLANT SURGERY TAKES PLACE.  ALL  DONORS  WHO  AGREE  TO
 PROVIDE  THEIR  FOLLOW-UP  DATA  FOR  USE  IN  SUCH STUDY WILL RECEIVE A
 STIPEND OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EACH YEAR OF  FOLLOW-UP  THEY  FULLY
 PARTICIPATE  IN. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL SUBMIT A REPORT INCLUDING RECOM-
 MENDATIONS AND FINDINGS BASED ON THIS STUDY TO THE GOVERNOR, THE  TEMPO-
 RARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE CHAIRS
 OF  THE  SENATE AND ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEES ON HEALTH NO LATER THAN
 DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR AND EACH DECEMBER  THIR-
 TY-FIRST THEREAFTER.
   2. FOR THE FIRST FIVE YEARS POST DONATION, KIDNEY DONORS SHALL EACH BE
 ENTITLED  TO  UP  TO  TWO  THOUSAND  DOLLARS TO PAY COPAYMENTS AND OTHER
 HEALTH-RELATED EXPENSES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed January 1, 2039.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06899-01-3

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