What's happening
This bill requires the creation of a statewide database tracking all tissue and non-transplant organ donations, including donor and recipient details, for improved oversight and safety.
Why it matters
Creates a comprehensive, centralized system for tracking tissue and organ donations. this could strengthen transparency and accountability, helping identify trends, prevent fraud, and ensure all donations are properly documented.
Requires detailed information about both donors and recipients (including sensitive health data, informed consent, and medical histories). raising important privacy considerations but also enabling faster and more reliable tracing in case of safety concerns or recalls.
Mandates that recipients be notified if tissue or organs come from donors later found to have infectious diseases or cancer. potentially reducing risks to patient health and enabling timely medical interventions.
Empowers the Department of Health to set rules and protocols for the database and notification process. ensuring the system can evolve to address emerging medical, ethical, and privacy issues.
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Who cares
New York State Department of Health
The department would establish a statewide tissue and non-transplant organ donation database, issue implementing rules and develop a recipient notification protocol.
Organ and tissue procurement organizations
Donations they procure would be tracked with detailed donor, consent, collection, recipient and outcome records, without replacing existing recordkeeping requirements.
Tissue and organ recipients
The department would develop a protocol to notify them if donated tissue or organs came from a donor who has or had an infectious, contagious or communicable disease or cancer.
Donors and people legally authorized to consent to donations
The database would contain donor identities and medical histories, with disclosure of identifying information restricted to consent-based, authorized departmental or other legally permitted access.
Headline styles
Track All Tissue Donations
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
836
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, TITONE, COLTON, COOK, JAFFEE -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the creation of a state-wide database of all donations of tissue or non-transplant organs procured by an organ procurement organization or a procurement organization
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 4369 to read as follows:
§ 4369. State-wide database of donations of tissue or non-transplant organs. 1. The department shall establish a state-wide database of all donations of tissue or non-transplant organs procured by an organ procurement organization or a procurement organization. Such data shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) the donor's full name, address at the time of donation, identification code, date of birth or age and date and time of death, if a cadaveric donor;
(b) documentation of evaluation of physical condition, of cadaveric donor;
(c) complete medical history of the donor, including but not limited to, any testing or medical records indicating a communicable disease or cancer, autopsy reports, donation questionnaires and other donor solicitation materials;
(d) documentation of informed consent or consent of the person authorized by law to consent to the donation;
(e) date and time of the collection, where the procurement occurred and the description and quantity of the tissue collected;
(f) name and address of the recipient of the tissue or organ; and
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(g) the outcome of the transplantation, transfer and implementation procedures, and any reports which would affect the donor's acceptability.
2. The information required to be kept in this database shall in no way preempt the recording requirements described in the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations Title 10 Section 52-2.9. The information in subdivision one of this section shall be collected by the department as a means of tracking donated tissue and organs. Any identifying information, such as the donor's name and address shall not be disclosed or released by the department to any person or entity, except upon the written consent of the donor or the person authorized by law to make such donation, or to authorized employees of the department, or as permitted by law.
3. The department shall promulgate any rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of such database established pursuant to this section.
4. The department shall develop a protocol to provide notice to tissue or organ recipients, if it is determined that such tissue or organs have been procured from a donor who has or had an infectious, contagious or communicable disease or cancer.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act are authorized and directed to be made and completed.
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