Provides for eye and tissue donation; requires coroners to develop a protocol for making referrals of deaths that fall under their jurisdiction and occur outside of a hospital including calling the federally designated organ procurement organization for donor registry verification and a donor suitability determination.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
June 20, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Woerner,
Walsh) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to eye and tissue donation
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 671 of the coun-
ty law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended and a
new paragraph (c) is added to read as follows:
(b) shall make inquiry into all deaths whether natural or unnatural in
[his or her] THEIR county occurring to an incarcerated individual of a
correctional facility as defined by subdivision three of section forty
of the correction law, whether or not the death occurred inside such
facility[.];
(C) SHALL DEVELOP A PROTOCOL FOR MAKING REFERRALS OF DEATHS THAT FALL
UNDER THEIR JURISDICTION AND OCCUR OUTSIDE OF A HOSPITAL. THIS PROTOCOL
SHALL INCLUDE, BUT SHALL NOT BE LIMITED TO, REQUIRING A CALL BE MADE TO
THE FEDERALLY DESIGNATED ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION. THE FEDERALLY
DESIGNATED ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION WILL THEN MAKE DONOR REGISTRY
VERIFICATION AND A DONOR SUITABILITY DETERMINATION.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07901-02-4
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