Assembly Bill A5132

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Grants the transplant council the power to make recommendations to the commissioner of health relating to organ donation, procurement organizations, banks and storage

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  • 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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2017-A5132 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2495
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4361, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S7945

2017-A5132 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Grants the transplant council the power to make recommendations to the commissioner of health relating to organ donation, transplantation, procurement organizations, banks and storage; requires the council to make such recommendations annually.

2017-A5132 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5132
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  the  transplant
   council
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 4361 of the public health law, as added by  chapter
 589 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
   §  4361.  Transplant council. 1. There shall be created in the depart-
 ment a transplant council which shall advise AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO
 the commissioner on matters  relating  to  organ  DONATION,  procurement
 organizations, banks, and storage facilities and other issues related to
 the DONATION, procurement, storage, allocation, distribution, and trans-
 plantation of organs and tissue. The council shall consist of twenty-one
 members of which seven, including the chairperson, shall be appointed by
 the  governor,  seven by the temporary president of the senate and seven
 by the speaker of the assembly. The transplant council shall be composed
 of members of the general public, transplant  recipients  or  donors  or
 their family members, representatives of organ procurement organizations
 and  banks or storage facilities, physicians with expertise in organ and
 tissue transplantation and the care of persons with  end  stage  disease
 resulting from organ failure and persons with expertise in histocompati-
 bility typing, law and ethics.
   2.  The  terms of office of members of the transplant council shall be
 three years, provided, however, that  of  the  members  first  appointed
 seven  shall be appointed for terms which shall expire on December thir-
 ty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-two,  seven  shall  be  appointed  for
 terms  which  shall  expire  on  December thirty-first, nineteen hundred
 ninety-four and seven shall be appointed for terms  which  shall  expire
 December  thirty-first,  nineteen hundred ninety-six. Vacancies shall be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04491-01-7

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