Assembly Bill A6588

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires only one physician to certify the death of a transplant donor

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

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2011-A6588 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง4306, Pub Health L

2011-A6588 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires only one physician to certify the death of a transplant donor.

2011-A6588 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6588

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 22, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. CONTE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring only one
  physician to certify the death of a transplant donor

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 4306 of the public health law, as
amended by chapter 589 of the laws  of  1990,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  2.  When a donor is determined dead based on irreversible cessation of
circulatory and respiratory functions, the time of death shall be certi-
fied  by  a physician.  Such physician may not participate in the proce-
dure to remove or transplant the body part. In all other cases the  time
of  death  shall  be certified by the physician who attends the donor at
his death [and one other physician, neither of whom shall]. SUCH  PHYSI-
CIAN  MAY NOT participate in the procedure for removing or transplanting
the part.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10125-01-1

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