---
type: "Bill"
title: "Grants the transplant council the power to make recommendations to the commissioner of health relating to organ donation, procurement organizations, banks and storage"
description: "Grants the transplant council the power to make recommendations to the commissioner of health relating to organ donation, transplantation, procurement organizations, banks and storage; requires the council to make such recommendations annually."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 2495"
citation: "New York S 2495 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["HANNON"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-13"
last_action: "2017-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9d8d25d-6cae-437c-9c53-56346a266977"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S2495"
source_hash: "fd19cc135f4422aedb9502f46c72117b81ab5fdf08a61b71e314f1c69adc8387"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 2495 (2017-2018) — Grants the transplant council the power to make recommendations to the commissioner of health relating to organ donation, procurement organizations, banks and storage

Grants the transplant council the power to make recommendations to the commissioner of health relating to organ donation, transplantation, procurement organizations, banks and storage; requires the council to make such recommendations annually.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S2495 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S2495&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S2495 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S2495)

## Votes

- Health Vote — **17–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **60–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **144–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- HANNON — primary (person)
- AKSHAR — cosponsor (person)
- AVELLA — cosponsor (person)
- CARLUCCI — cosponsor (person)
- DEFRANCISCO — cosponsor (person)
- FLANAGAN — cosponsor (person)
- FUNKE — cosponsor (person)
- GALLIVAN — cosponsor (person)
- GOLDEN — cosponsor (person)
- HAMILTON — cosponsor (person)
- HELMING — cosponsor (person)
- KAMINSKY — cosponsor (person)
- KENNEDY — cosponsor (person)
- LARKIN — cosponsor (person)
- MARCHIONE — cosponsor (person)
- ORTT — cosponsor (person)
- RANZENHOFER — cosponsor (person)
- SERINO — cosponsor (person)
- SEWARD — cosponsor (person)
- VALESKY — cosponsor (person)
- YOUNG — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-13** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** 1ST REPORT CAL.195
- **2017-02-13** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2017-02-14** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2017-03-01** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-03-01** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-03-01** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5132
- **2017-03-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.112
- **2017-03-08** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-03-08** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-05-02** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-12** SIGNED CHAP.26 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9d8d25d-6cae-437c-9c53-56346a266977`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).