Bill Text: NY A07282 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to instruction regarding organ donation; authorizes the commissioner of education to make materials providing information on organ donation available to all secondary school pupils and to authorize instruction on organ donation to be taught to secondary school pupils.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-02 - held for consideration in education [A07282 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07282-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7282
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 1, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LUPINACCI  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to instruction  regarding
         organ donation
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  804-e
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S  804-E.  INSTRUCTION  RELATED TO ORGAN DONATION. 1. THE COMMISSIONER
    4  SHALL MAKE MATERIALS PROVIDING INFORMATION ON ORGAN  DONATION  AVAILABLE
    5  TO ALL SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS ON THE DEPARTMENT WEBSITE.
    6    2.  THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
    7  HEALTH, SHALL IDENTIFY OR  DEVELOP  MATERIALS  FOR  EDUCATORS  REGARDING
    8  ORGAN DONATION WHICH MAY BE USED BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND BOARDS OF COOP-
    9  ERATIVE EDUCATION SERVICES, AT THEIR OPTION, TO EDUCATE STUDENTS AS THEY
   10  DEEM  APPROPRIATE.  SUCH  EDUCATION  MATERIALS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE
   11  LIMITED TO, INFORMATION REGARDING THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF  DONATED  ORGANS
   12  NEEDED  AND/OR  DONATED EVERY YEAR, THE NUMBER OF FATALITIES THAT RESULT
   13  FROM A SHORTAGE OF DONATED ORGANS, INFORMATION REGARDING REASONS  WHY  A
   14  PATIENT  MAY  NEED  AN  ORGAN  DONATION, AND INFORMATION REGARDING HOW A
   15  STUDENT MAY ELECT TO BECOME AN ORGAN  DONOR.  SUCH  MATERIALS  SHALL  BE
   16  AVAILABLE  ON  THE  INTERNET  WEBSITE  OF  THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. THE
   17  WEBSITE OF THE OFFICE SHALL PROVIDE A HYPERLINK TO THE INTERNET PAGE  OF
   18  THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT THAT DISPLAYS SUCH MATERIALS.
   19    3.  INSTRUCTION REGARDING ORGAN DONATION MAY BE INCLUDED IN THE HEALTH
   20  EDUCATION PROVIDED TO THE SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS AND SHALL BE TAUGHT BY
   21  TEACHERS CERTIFIED IN HEALTH EDUCATION. RELATED COURSES IN THE SECONDARY
   22  SCHOOL CURRICULUM MAY BE TAUGHT IN A MANNER SUPPORTIVE OF HEALTH  EDUCA-
   23  TION REGARDING ORGAN DONATION.
   24    4. SCHOOL AUTHORITIES SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE THE NEEDED FACIL-
   25  ITIES, TIME, AND PLACE FOR THE INSTRUCTION SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION AND
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10637-01-5
       A. 7282                             2
    1  TO  PROVIDE  LEARNING  AIDS  AND  CURRICULUM  RESOURCE  MATERIALS  WHICH
    2  CONTRIBUTE TO EFFECTIVE TEACHING METHODS AND LEARNING IN  HEALTH  EDUCA-
    3  TION REGARDING ORGAN DONATION.
    4    S  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    5  the date on which it shall have become a law.