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NY A06824
Bill
Status
6/6/2025
Primary Sponsor
Carrie Woerner
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AI Summary
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Requires coroners and medical examiners to develop referral protocols for promptly identifying potential anatomical gift donors when deaths under their jurisdiction occur outside of hospitals
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Mandates that protocols include placing a call and/or text to the appropriate eye and tissue bank to verify donor registry status and determine donor suitability
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Requires coroners and medical examiners to notify appropriate procurement organizations before proceeding with autopsies when a decedent is a registered donor
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Specifies that autopsies and analysis of eyes, tissues, or organs must be performed in a manner and timeframe compatible with preserving donations for transplantation purposes
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Updates gendered language in the county law from "his or her" to "their"
Legislative Description
Provides for 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.
Last Action
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
3/5/2026