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NY S 8296

in committee

Provides for eye and tissue donation

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

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.

Introduced
Status date
Latest action
2026-03-10 — REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO HEALTH
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Sponsors

  • Monica Martinezprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-05-30

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-03-10

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO HEALTH

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Local Government Vote

    2026-03-10 · pass · 6-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • April Baskin: yes
    • Patricia Fahy: yes
    • Monica Martinez: yes
    • Robert Rolison: yes
    • James Skoufis: yes
    • Alexis Weik: yes
    • Samra Brouk: excused

Related bills

  • Prior session: A 10046not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 6582not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 6010not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 10620not in this corpus
  • Companion bill: A 6824

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Attribution

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