S04999 Summary:

BILL NOS04999A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A10664
 
SPONSORDUANE
 
COSPNSRESPADA, SCHNEIDERMAN
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S4310, Pub Health L; amd S307, St Tech L
 
Permits an electronic signature to register consent to make an anatomical gift.
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S04999 Actions:

BILL NOS04999A
 
04/27/2009REFERRED TO HEALTH
01/06/2010REFERRED TO HEALTH
04/09/2010AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH
04/09/2010PRINT NUMBER 4999A
04/27/20101ST REPORT CAL.438
04/28/20102ND REPORT CAL.
05/03/2010ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
05/04/2010SUBSTITUTED BY A10664
 A10664 AMEND= Gottfried (MS)
 04/13/2010referred to health
 04/20/2010reported
 04/22/2010advanced to third reading cal.818
 04/26/2010passed assembly
 04/26/2010delivered to senate
 04/26/2010REFERRED TO HEALTH
 05/04/2010SUBSTITUTED FOR S4999A
 05/04/20103RD READING CAL.438
 05/11/2010PASSED SENATE
 05/11/2010RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
 06/25/2010delivered to governor
 07/07/2010signed chap.161
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S04999 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S04999 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         4999--A
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 27, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  DUANE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Health 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 public health law and the state technology law, in
          relation to permitting an electronic signature to make  an  anatomical
          gift
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 4310 of the public health law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  362  of  the  laws  of 2008, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. Such registration of consent to make an anatomical gift can be made
     5  through (a) indication made on the application  or  renewal  form  of  a
     6  license,  (b) indication made on a non-driver identification card appli-
     7  cation or renewal form, (c) enrolling in the registry website maintained
     8  by the department, which may include using an electronic signature under

     9  regulations of the commissioner and subject  to  article  three  of  the
    10  state  technology  law, (d) indication made on a voter registration form
    11  pursuant to subdivision five of section 5-210 of the  election  law,  or
    12  (e) through any other method identified by the commissioner.  The regis-
    13  tration  shall take effect upon the department sending written notice of
    14  the registration to the person enrolling in the  registry.    In  making
    15  regulations  on  using  an  electronic  signature  for a registration of
    16  consent, the commissioner shall consult with the director of the  office
    17  of technology.
    18    §  2.  Subdivision  1 of section 307 of the state technology law, such
    19  section as renumbered by chapter 437 of the laws of 2004, is amended  to
    20  read as follows:
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11421-02-0

        S. 4999--A                          2
 
     1    1.  To  any  document providing for the disposition of an individual's
     2  person or property upon death or incompetence, or appointing a fiduciary
     3  of an individual's person or property,  including,  without  limitation,
     4  wills, trusts, decisions consenting to orders not to resuscitate, powers
     5  of attorney and health care proxies, with the exception of: (a) contrac-
     6  tual  beneficiary  designations;  and  (b) the registration of making an
     7  anatomical gift under section forty-three  hundred  ten  of  the  public

     8  health law under regulations under that section.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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