Assembly Bill A3545

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Creates a live kidney donor follow-up study

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A3545 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §4311, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8441

2025-A3545 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a ten year live kidney donor follow-up study which includes a one thousand dollars per year stipend for participants; provides two thousand dollars for all kidney donors for health-related expenses.

2025-A3545 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3545
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  creating  a  live
   kidney  donor  follow-up  study;  and providing for the repeal of such
   provisions upon expiration thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 4311 to read as follows:
   § 4311. NEW YORK LIVING KIDNEY DONOR FOLLOW-UP STUDY. 1.  THE  DEPART-
 MENT SHALL CONTRACT WITH A QUALIFIED RESEARCH TEAM TO CONDUCT A PROSPEC-
 TIVE STUDY OF LIVING KIDNEY DONOR HEALTH. SUCH STUDY SHALL FOLLOW PEOPLE
 WHO  DONATE  A  KIDNEY  IN  NEW YORK BETWEEN JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-SIX AND DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND THIRTY FOR TEN  YEARS
 WHOSE  TRANSPLANT  SURGERY  TAKES PLACE. ALL DONORS WHO AGREE TO PROVIDE
 THEIR FOLLOW-UP DATA FOR USE IN SUCH STUDY WILL RECEIVE A STIPEND OF ONE
 THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EACH YEAR OF FOLLOW-UP THEY FULLY  PARTICIPATE  IN.
 THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  SUBMIT  A REPORT INCLUDING RECOMMENDATIONS AND
 FINDINGS BASED ON THIS STUDY TO THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF
 THE SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE CHAIRS OF THE SENATE AND
 ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEES ON HEALTH NO LATER  THAN  DECEMBER  THIRTY-
 FIRST,  TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX AND EACH DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST THEREAFT-
 ER.
   2. FOR THE FIRST FIVE YEARS POST DONATION, KIDNEY DONORS SHALL EACH BE
 ENTITLED TO UP TO TWO THOUSAND  DOLLARS  TO  PAY  COPAYMENTS  AND  OTHER
 HEALTH-RELATED EXPENSES.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed January 1, 2041.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06689-01-5

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