Bill Text: NY A00614 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Clarifies that registration in the donate life registry takes effect when entry of the individual's enrollment data is made into the registry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-03-03 - signed chap.10 [A00614 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00614-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           614

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  written
          in-person  or electronic notifications to be utilized for registration
          in the donate life registry

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision  5 of section 4310 of the
     2  public health law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2022  amending
     3  the  public  health law relating to requiring written in-person or elec-
     4  tronic notifications to be utilized for registration in the donate  life
     5  registry,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills numbers S. 6921-A and A.
     6  7916-A, is amended to read as follows:
     7    (c) Enrollment or amendment or  revocation  through  the  donate  life
     8  registry website through any of the means listed in this subdivision may
     9  be  signed by electronic signature, in accordance with the provisions of
    10  article three of the state technology law, supported by the use of suit-
    11  able mechanisms including unique identifiers to  provide  confidence  in
    12  the  identity  of  the  person  providing  the electronic signature. The
    13  registration shall take effect upon the provision of  written  or  elec-
    14  tronic  notice  of  the  registration to the individual enrolling in the
    15  donate life registry and the registry's [receipt] entry of the  individ-
    16  ual's  enrollment  data in the registry; provided, however, that written
    17  in-person or electronic notifications shall be utilized wherever  possi-
    18  ble as methods for fulfillment of the purposes of this paragraph.
    19    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    20  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the public  health  law
    21  relating  to  requiring written in-person or electronic notifications to
    22  be utilized for registration in the donate life registry, as proposed in
    23  legislative bills numbers S. 6921-A and A. 7916-A, takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03939-01-3