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Assembly Bill A8661

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Makes permanent the provisions of Lauren's law, providing for the election to or declining to elect to register in the donate life registry for organ and tissue donation

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2015-A8661 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6528
Law Section:
Health
Laws Affected:
Amd §6, Chap 465 of 2012
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A5179, S1206

2015-A8661 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes permanent the provisions of Lauren's law, providing for the election to or declining to elect to register in the donate life registry for organ and tissue donation.

2015-A8661 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8661

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 7, 2016
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend Lauren's law, in relation to making  the  provisions  of
  such law permanent

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

  Section 1. Section 6 of chapter 465 of the laws of 2012,  constituting
Lauren's law, is amended to read as follows:
  S  6. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
law; provided that the commissioners of health and  motor  vehicles  may
implement  sections  two, four and five of this act within their respec-
tive jurisdictions before that date[; and provided,  further,  that  the
provisions  of  this act shall expire and be deemed repealed three years
after such effective date].
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13512-01-6

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