New York Assembly Bill A08441 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8441 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY December 29, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to creating a live kidney donor follow-up study; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 4311 to read as follows: 3 § 4311. New York living kidney donor follow-up study. 1. The depart- 4 ment shall contract with a qualified research team to conduct a prospec- 5 tive study of living kidney donor health. Such study shall follow people 6 who donate a kidney in New York between January first, two thousand 7 twenty-four and December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-eight for ten 8 years whose transplant surgery takes place. All donors who agree to 9 provide their follow-up data for use in such study will receive a 10 stipend of one thousand dollars for each year of follow-up they fully 11 participate in. The commissioner shall submit a report including recom- 12 mendations and findings based on this study to the governor, the tempo- 13 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the chairs 14 of the senate and assembly standing committees on health no later than 15 December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-four and each December thir- 16 ty-first thereafter. 17 2. For the first five years post donation, kidney donors shall each be 18 entitled to up to two thousand dollars to pay copayments and other 19 health-related expenses. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 21 deemed repealed January 1, 2039. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06899-01-3