New York S 814: Relates to organ donation registration through a patient-facing portal

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S00814 Summary:

BILL NOS00814 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05572

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SPONSORRIVERA

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COSPNSRWEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§206 & 4310, Pub Health L; amd §6, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.8456 & A.7079)

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Provides that organ donation registrations through an electronic health record product do not retain or store patients' donor status information and meet standards established by the commissioner; amends the effective date.

Go to top S00814 Actions:

BILL NOS00814 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/13/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.88

03/17/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A5572

&nbspA05572 AMEND= Zinerman

&nbsp02/14/2025referred to health

&nbsp02/24/2025reported referred to rules

&nbsp02/25/2025reported 

&nbsp02/25/2025rules report cal.104

&nbsp02/25/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.104

&nbsp02/26/2025passed assembly

&nbsp02/26/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp02/26/2025REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp03/17/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S814

&nbsp03/17/20253RD READING CAL.88

&nbsp03/17/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp03/17/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp05/23/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp05/23/2025signed chap.128

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 814

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to organ donation
 registration through a patient-facing portal; and to amend a chapter
 of the laws of 2024 amending the public health law relating to allow-
 ing patients to register in the "donate life registry" through their
 electronic health records, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
 8456 and A. 7079, in relation to the effectiveness thereof

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (w) of subdivision 1 of section 206 of the public
 2 health law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the
 3 public health law relating to allowing patients to register in the
 4 "donate life registry" through their electronic health records, as
 5 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8456 and A. 7079, is amended to
 6 read as follows:
 7 (w) require that every electronic health record vendor include and
 8 integrate components into their electronic health record products imple-
 9 mented for general hospitals in the state regulated under article twen-
 10 ty-eight of this chapter in such a manner to allow patients to register
 11 directly in the New York state "donate life registry" for organ, eye and
 12 tissue donations as provided for under section forty-three hundred ten
 13 of this chapter. Such registration shall be via a patient-facing portal,
 14 provided that, to protect patient confidentiality and prevent conflicts
 15 of interest, such electronic health record products do not retain or
 16 store patients' donor status information, and provided, further, that
 17 such electronic health record products meet standards as may be estab-
 18 lished by the commissioner, including, but not limited to, a standard-
 19 ized question allowing direct enrollment in the donate life registry and
 20 required data elements. Electronic health record vendors shall provide

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02858-01-5

 S. 814 2

 1 the integration of such elements without additional cost under this
 2 paragraph as a component of either existing or new implementations of
 3 their electronic health record products. Patient facing elements of
 4 these [requirements] products shall include opportunities for patients
 5 to directly register in the "donate life registry" for organ, eye and
 6 tissue donations as a component of such elements.
 7 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 4310 of the public
 8 health law, as amended by section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2024
 9 amending the public health law relating to