Assembly Bill A6824B

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for eye and tissue donation

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co-Sponsors

2025-A6824 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8296
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
County Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§671 & 674-a, County L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10046
2019-2020: A6003, A6582
2021-2022: A6010
2023-2024: A10620

2025-A6824 - Summary

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.

2025-A6824 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6824
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  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.
                                                            LBD10273-01-5

co-Sponsors

2025-A6824A - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8296
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
County Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§671 & 674-a, County L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10046
2019-2020: A6003, A6582
2021-2022: A6010
2023-2024: A10620

2025-A6824A - Summary

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.

2025-A6824A - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6824--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WOERNER,  WALSH,  LEVENBERG -- read once and
   referred  to  the  Committee  on  Local   Governments   --   committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 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 county
 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 REFERRAL PROTOCOL TO PROMPTLY IDENTIFY DONORS OF
 ANATOMICAL GIFTS FOR 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 AND/OR TEXT BE PROMPTLY PLACED TO A DESIG-
 NATED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE APPROPRIATE EYE AND TISSUE  BANK,  AS  THOSE
 TERMS  ARE  DEFINED  IN SECTION FORTY-THREE HUNDRED OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH
 LAW, TO ENABLE SUCH PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATIONS TO VERIFY  DONOR  REGISTRY
 AND MAKE A DONOR SUITABILITY DETERMINATION.
   §  2.  Subdivision  1  of section 674-a of the county law, as added by
 chapter 899 of the laws of 1977, is amended as follows:
   1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,  UPON  NOTICE
 TO  THE  APPROPRIATE  PROCUREMENT  ORGANIZATIONS  IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
 REFERRAL PROTOCOL ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE, if IT IS  DETER-
 MINED  THAT the decedent who is under the jurisdiction of the coroner or
 medical examiner as defined in this chapter is a donor of all or part of
 [his] THEIR body as defined in the public health law including  properly
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10273-02-5

co-Sponsors

2025-A6824B (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8296
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
County Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§671 & 674-a, County L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10046
2019-2020: A6003, A6582
2021-2022: A6010
2023-2024: A10620

2025-A6824B (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-A6824B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6824--B
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WOERNER,  WALSH,  LEVENBERG -- read once and
   referred  to  the  Committee  on  Local   Governments   --   committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to  said  committee  -- again reported from said committee with amend-
   ments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 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 county
 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 REFERRAL PROTOCOL TO PROMPTLY IDENTIFY  DONORS  OF
 ANATOMICAL GIFTS FOR 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 AND/OR TEXT BE PROMPTLY PLACED TO A  DESIG-
 NATED  REPRESENTATIVE  OF  THE APPROPRIATE EYE AND TISSUE BANK, AS THOSE
 TERMS ARE DEFINED IN SECTION FORTY-THREE HUNDRED OF  THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH
 LAW,  TO  ENABLE SUCH PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATIONS TO VERIFY DONOR REGISTRY
 AND MAKE A DONOR SUITABILITY DETERMINATION.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 674-a of the county  law,  as  added  by
 chapter 899 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  Notwithstanding  any provision of law to the contrary, UPON NOTICE
 TO THE APPROPRIATE PROCUREMENT  ORGANIZATIONS  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  THE
 REFERRAL  PROTOCOL ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE, if IT IS DETER-
 MINED THAT the decedent who is under the jurisdiction of the coroner  or
 medical examiner as defined in this chapter is a donor of all or part of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10273-04-5

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