Creates a ten year live kidney donor follow-up study which includes a one thousand dollars per year stipend for participants; provides two thousand dollars for all kidney donors for health-related expenses.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3487
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to creating a live
kidney donor follow-up study; and providing for the repeal of such
provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 4311 to read as follows:
3 § 4311. New York living kidney donor follow-up study. 1. The depart-
4 ment shall contract with a qualified research team to conduct a prospec-
5 tive study of living kidney donor health. Such study shall follow people
6 who donate a kidney in New York between January first, two thousand
7 twenty-four and December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-eight for ten
8 years whose transplant surgery takes place. All donors who agree to
9 provide their follow-up data for use in such study will receive a
10 stipend of one thousand dollars for each year of follow-up they fully
11 participate in. The commissioner shall submit a report including recom-
12 mendations and findings based on this study to the governor, the tempo-
13 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the chairs
14 of the senate and assembly standing committees on health no later than
15 December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-four and each December thir-
16 ty-first thereafter.
17 2. For the first five years post donation, kidney donors shall each be
18 entitled to up to two thousand dollars to pay copayments and other
19 health-related expenses.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
21 deemed repealed January 1, 2039.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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