NY State Senate Bill S6228

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jul 21, 2016	signed chap.174
Jul 13, 2016	delivered to governor
May 18, 2016	returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading cal.609 substituted for a8594
Feb 24, 2016	referred to health delivered to assembly passed senate
Jan 21, 2016	advanced to third reading
Jan 20, 2016	2nd report cal.
Jan 12, 2016	1st report cal.45
Jan 06, 2016	referred to health

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S6228 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8594
Law Section:: Health
Laws Affected:: Amd §6, Chap 465 of 2012

S6228 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends, for an additional 4 years, 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.

S6228 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

 BILL NUMBER:  S6228

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend Lauren's law, in relation to extending the expiration
date of the provisions thereof

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :

The purpose of this legislation is to extend for an additional four
years the provisions of state law requiring individuals who apply for
a New York State Drivers License to complete the organ donor registry
section. The applicant must check the box for either "yes" or "skip
this question" under the organ donor registry section of the
application.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

Section 1. This bill would extend Chapter 465 of 2012 for an
additional four years, until the year 2020.

Chapter 465 of 2012 amends the public health law to require the DMV
commissioner to provide space on certain driver forms for registering
or declining to register in the donate life registry. This applies to
an application or renewal form of a license, non-driver identification
card application or renewal form. On the application, in clear and

conspicuous writing, an individual is required to check either "yes"
or "skip this question" when answering the question "Would you like to
be added to the Donate life registry?"

Chapter 465 also provides that the commissioner shall not maintain
records of any person who checks "skip this question." Failure to
check a box will not impair the validity of the application and
failure to check "yes" or checking "skip this question" will not be
interpreted as a wish not to donate.

If an applicant is not 18 years of age, checking "yes" will not
constitute consent to make an anatomical gift. And where an applicant
has previously consented to make an anatomical gift or registered in
the donate life registry, checking "skip this question" or failing to
check a box will not impair this previous consent or registration.

Section 2 states that this Act shall take effect immediately.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Chapter 465 of 2012, named after a 12-year old girl who received a
lifesaving heart transplant, is set to expire in October 2016. This
legislation would extend the provisions of this chapter until October
2020, which requires applicants who fill out motor vehicle forms to
affirmatively check that, "yes" they will be an organ donor, or to
check the box stating that they are skipping the question.

According to the New York State Organ Donor Network, New York
currently has the lowest Donor Designation Rate in the United States.
Extension of this law will continue to promote and increase the number
of organ donors in the state while taking into consideration all of
the individual rights of persons to decline enrollment into the
program.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

New bill.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately.

S6228 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6228

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 6, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend Lauren's law, in relation to  extending  the  expiration
  date of the provisions thereof

  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] SEVEN
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.
                                                           LBD13166-01-5

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