Assembly Bill A7079

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for allowing patients to register in the donate life registry through their electronic health records

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Current Bill Status Via S8456 - Passed Assembly


  • 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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2023-A7079 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8456
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§206 & 4310, Pub Health L

2023-A7079 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for allowing patients to register in the "donate life registry" through their electronic health records.

2023-A7079 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7079
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to allowing  patients
   to  register  in  the  "donate life registry" through their electronic
   health records
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (v) of subdivision 1 of section 206 of the public
 health law, as added by chapter 40 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a
 new paragraph (w) is added to read as follows:
   (v)  require,  in consultation and cooperation with the superintendent
 of financial services, that every individual applying  for  health  care
 coverage  through the state health benefit exchange established pursuant
 to  the  federal  Patient  Protection  and  Affordable  Care  Act  (P.L.
 111-148),  as amended by the federal Health Care and Education Reconcil-
 iation Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-152), be provided space so that such appli-
 cant may register in the "donate  life  registry"  for  organ,  eye  and
 tissue  donations  under section forty-three hundred ten of this chapter
 with the following stated in clear conspicuous type:
   "Would you like to be added to the Donate Life Registry? Check box for
 'yes' or 'skip this question'."
   The commissioner shall not maintain records of any person  who  checks
 "skip  this question". Except where the application is made in person or
 electronically, failure to check a box shall not impair the validity  of
 an  application, and failure to check "yes" or checking "skip this ques-
 tion" shall not be construed to imply a wish not to donate. In the  case
 of  an  applicant  under eighteen years of age, checking "yes" shall not
 constitute consent to make an anatomical gift  or  registration  in  the
 donate  life  registry,  EXCEPT  AS  OTHERWISE  PROVIDED PURSUANT TO THE
 PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION ONE  OF  SECTION  FORTY-THREE
 HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER. Where an applicant has previously consented

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11125-01-3
              

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