Bill Text: NY S04471 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing donate life registration when applying for or renewing a hunting, fishing or trapping license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04471 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4471
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 12, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sen. ANTONACCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the environmental conservation
          law,  in  relation  to allowing donate life registration when applying
          for or renewing a hunting, fishing or trapping license
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  5 of section 4310 of the
     2  public health law, as separately amended by chapters 40 and 248  of  the
     3  laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  Such  organ,  eye  and  tissue registration of consent to make an
     5  anatomical gift can be made through: (i) indication made on the applica-
     6  tion or renewal form of a driver's license, (ii) indication  made  on  a
     7  non-driver  identification card application or renewal form, (iii) indi-
     8  cation made on a voter registration form pursuant to subdivision five of
     9  section 5-210 of the election law, (iv) indication made on the  applica-
    10  tion  for  health care coverage offered through the state health benefit
    11  exchange, (v) enrollment through the donate life registry website,  (vi)
    12  paper enrollment submitted to the donate life registry, [or] (vii) indi-
    13  cation  made on the application or renewal form of a hunting, fishing or
    14  trapping license issued pursuant to title seven of article eleven of the
    15  environmental conservation law, or (viii) through any other method iden-
    16  tified by the commissioner.  The department shall establish a  means  by
    17  which  to  register  the consent given by individuals who are sixteen or
    18  seventeen years of age in the  donate  life  registry,  and  shall  make
    19  registration  available  by any of the methods provided in subparagraphs
    20  (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) [and], (vi) and (vii) of this paragraph.
    21    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 206 of the public health law is  amended
    22  by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows:
    23    (w)  require, in consultation and cooperation with the commissioner of
    24  the department of  environmental  conservation,  that  every  individual
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10726-01-9

        S. 4471                             2
     1  applying  for  or  renewing  a license for hunting, fishing, or trapping
     2  issued pursuant to title seven of article eleven  of  the  environmental
     3  conservation  law, be provided space so that such applicant may register
     4  in the donate life registry for organ, eye and tissue donations pursuant
     5  to  section  forty-three  hundred ten of this chapter with the following
     6  stated in clear conspicuous type:
     7    "You must fill out the following section: Would you like to  be  added
     8  to  the  Donate  Life  Registry? Check box for 'yes' or 'skip this ques-
     9  tion'."
    10    Except where the application is  made  in  person  or  electronically,
    11  failure  to  check a box shall not impair the validity of an application
    12  or renewal, and failure to check "yes" or checking "skip this  question"
    13  shall  not be construed to imply a wish not to donate. In the case of an
    14  applicant under sixteen years of age, checking "yes" shall  not  consti-
    15  tute  consent  to  make an anatomical gift or registration in the donate
    16  life registry. Where an applicant has previously consented  to  make  an
    17  anatomical  gift  or is registered in the donate life registry, checking
    18  "skip this question" or failing to check a box  shall  not  impair  that
    19  consent or registration.
    20    §  3. Section 11-0713 of the environmental conservation law is amended
    21  by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    22    7.   The commissioner shall provide, on  each  form  for  purchase  or
    23  renewal  of a license pursuant to this title, space for the applicant to
    24  register in the donate life registry for organ, eye and tissue donations
    25  established pursuant to section forty-three hundred ten  of  the  public
    26  health  law  with  the  following stated on the application in clear and
    27  conspicuous type:
    28    "You must fill out the following section: Would you like to  be  added
    29  to  the  Donate  Life  Registry? Check box for 'yes' or 'skip this ques-
    30  tion'."
    31    Failure to check a box shall not be construed to imply a wish  not  to
    32  donate. In the case of an applicant under sixteen years of age, checking
    33  "yes"  shall not constitute consent to make an anatomical gift or regis-
    34  tration in the donate life registry. Where an applicant  has  previously
    35  consented to make an anatomical gift or is registered in the donate life
    36  registry,  checking "skip this question" or failing to check a box shall
    37  not impair that consent or registration.
    38    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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