Bill Text: NY S05697 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain disclosures by sperm and ovum storage facilities to inform clients relating to the inheritance rights of a posthumously conceived child from the utilization of such sperm or ovum.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-19 - PRINT NUMBER 5697B [S05697 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05697-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5697--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 26, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining  its  place  in the order of third reading -- recommitted to
          the Committee on Consumer Protection in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to requiring
          certain disclosures by sperm and ovum storage facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  391-u to read as follows:
     3    §  391-u. Disclosure statement by sperm or ovum storage facility.  Any
     4  medical facility, or other facility, engaged in the business of  provid-
     5  ing  the  storage  of  sperm  or  ovum  shall,  prior to engaging in any
     6  contractual agreement with a client for such  storage,  provide  to  the
     7  client  written  notification  of  the  provisions of sections 4-1.3 and
     8  11-1.5 of the estates, powers and trusts law relating to the inheritance
     9  rights of a child posthumously conceived from the utilization  of  sperm
    10  or ovum stored with such facility.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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