Senate Bill S455

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Ensures fairness in organ donations to persons with physical or mental disabilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities 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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2019-S455 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2123
Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 35 §§35.01 - 35.07, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7043, A9630
2021-2022: S3203
2023-2024: S779

2019-S455 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prevents discrimination against persons with physical or mental disabilities in regards to organ donations.

2019-S455 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S455 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    455
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
   mental Disabilities
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to fairness in organ
   donations to persons with physical or mental disabilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new article
 35 to read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 35
                        ORGAN DONATION FAIRNESS ACT
 SECTION 35.01 LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
         35.03 DEFINITIONS.
         35.05 DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.
         35.07 ENFORCEMENT.
 § 35.01 LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
   THE LEGISLATURE FINDS THAT:
   (A) A MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY DOES NOT DIMINISH A PERSON'S RIGHT
 TO HEALTH CARE;
   (B) THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT OF 1990, 42 USC 12101, PROHIB-
 ITS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, YET MANY  INDIVID-
 UALS  WITH  DISABILITIES  STILL  EXPERIENCE  DISCRIMINATION IN ACCESSING
 CRITICAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES;
   (C) INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL AND  PHYSICAL  DISABILITIES  HAVE  HISTOR-
 ICALLY  BEEN  DENIED  LIFE-SAVING ORGAN TRANSPLANTS BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS
 THAT THEIR LIVES ARE LESS WORTHY, THAT THEY ARE INCAPABLE  OF  COMPLYING
 WITH  POST-TRANSPLANT  MEDICAL  REGIMENS,  OR  THAT  THEY  LACK ADEQUATE
 SUPPORT SYSTEMS TO ENSURE SUCH COMPLIANCE;
   (D) ALTHOUGH  ORGAN  TRANSPLANT  CENTERS  MUST  CONSIDER  MEDICAL  AND
 PSYCHOSOCIAL  CRITERIA  WHEN  DETERMINING  IF  A  PATIENT IS SUITABLE TO
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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