Relates to eye and tissue donation; requires coroners to develop a protocol for making referrals of deaths that fall under their jurisdiction and occur outside of a hospital including calling the federally designated organ procurement organization for donor registry verification and a donor suitability determination.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1437
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to eye and tissue donation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Dalton's Law".
2 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 671 of the county law,
3 as amended by chapter 491 of the laws of 1987, is amended and a new
4 paragraph (c) is added to read as follows:
5 (b) shall make inquiry into all deaths whether natural or unnatural in
6 his county occurring to an inmate of a correctional facility as defined
7 by subdivision three of section forty of the correction law, whether or
8 not the death occurred inside such facility[.];
9 (c) shall develop a protocol for making referrals of deaths that fall
10 under their jurisdiction and occur outside of a hospital. This protocol
11 shall include, but shall not be limited to, requiring a call be made to
12 the federally designated organ procurement organization. The federally
13 designated organ procurement organization will then make donor registry
14 verification and a donor suitability determination.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02832-01-9
