S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9488
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 7, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the public health
law relating to permitting a close friend to make an anatomical gift
of a decedent's body, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 3360
and A. 1395, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 3 of a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the
public health law relating to permitting a close friend to make an
anatomical gift of a decedent's body, as proposed in legislative bills
numbers S. 3360 and A. 1395, is amended to read as follows:
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the [first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which] ONE HUNDRED EIGHTIETH DAY AFTER it shall have
become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of health is
authorized to take any actions necessary to implement the provisions of
this act on or before its effective date.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the same date in the same manner as
a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the public health law relating to
permitting a close friend to make an anatomical gift of a decedent's
body, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 3360 and A. 1395,
takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03875-02-6
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