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- Referred to health
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Relates to death, burial and removal permits
In Assembly Committee · Health · Sponsor Crystal Peoples-Stokes
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BILL NUMBER:S7543
Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to death, burial and removal permits
Purpose
To amend the public health law in order to permit institutions authorized to accept unclaimed cadavers and anatomical donations to file death certificates, burial, removal and transit permits for bodies claimed or donated to their programs.
Summary of provisions
Sections 1 through 6 of the bill amend existing provisions of the public health law to permit certain educational institutions operating whole body donation/non-transplant anatomic bank programs to file the requisite paperwork associated with the donation, including death certificates and burial and transit permits.
Section 7 establishes the effective date.
Justification
Current law allows certain higher education institutions, such as medical schools, to conduct whole body. non-transplant anatomical gift programs and to receive unclaimed cadavers. These programs permit New Yorkers to donate their body to science for use in educating medical students or research. This important program is critical to New York's 16 medical schools and their effort to the education of future generations of health care professionals as well as provide continued education and training for physicians.
While these programs are responsible for every aspect of the donation, from working with individual's families. transporting the bodies and final disposition, the program itself is not permitted under current law to file the various permits and forms associated with these tasks. Such permits and forms, including death certificates, burial and transit permits. may, under most circumstances, only be filed by licensed funeral directors using the registration number of a funeral home. Often, whole body donations never become the responsibility of a funeral home. and thus a complicated and inefficient system is created whereby donation programs must contract with funeral homes simply to file paperwork.
This bill would streamline this process and permit these educational whole body donation programs to file the necessary paperwork associated with their current activities.
Legislative history
New Bill
Fiscal implications
None
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the 60th day after it shall have become a law.
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