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Assembly Bill A9747

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires hospitals to permit selective pre-surgery blood donation

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2017-A9747 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2805-z, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4608
2011-2012: A4970, A9321
2013-2014: A2407
2015-2016: A762

2017-A9747 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hospitals and other facilities to permit a person, prior to surgery, to either pre-donate his or her own blood or to bring his or her own donor for selective blood donation on an in-patient or out-patient basis.

2017-A9747 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9747
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 5, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  D. ROSENTHAL,  M. G. MILLER -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to selective pre-sur-
   gery blood donation
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2805-z to read as follows:
   § 2805-Z. SELECTIVE PRE-SURGERY BLOOD DONATION. 1. HOSPITALS AND OTHER
 FACILITIES APPROVED PURSUANT TO THIS  ARTICLE  SHALL  PERMIT  A  PERSON,
 PRIOR TO SURGERY ON AN IN-PATIENT OR OUT-PATIENT BASIS:
   (A)  TO DONATE HIS OR HER OWN BLOOD FOR POSSIBLE TRANSFUSION INTO SUCH
 PATIENT; AND
   (B) TO BRING OTHER PERSONS TO DONATE BLOOD  FOR  POSSIBLE  TRANSFUSION
 INTO  SUCH  PATIENT. BLOOD DONATED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE
 STORED IN A PLACE AND MANNER APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   2. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE REGULATIONS CONTAINING GUIDELINES
 FOR FEES TO RECOVER THE COST TO SUCH  HOSPITAL  OR  OTHER  FACILITY  FOR
 DRAWING  THE  BLOOD  PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION AND FOR
 THE STORAGE THEREOF.
   3. WHEN A PERSON IS ADMITTED FOR SURGERY ON AN IN-PATIENT  OR  OUT-PA-
 TIENT  BASIS  AND  BLOOD  HAS  BEEN  PREVIOUSLY DONATED FOR SUCH PATIENT
 PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS  SECTION,  SUCH  PERSON  SHALL  GIVE
 WRITTEN  DIRECTION  REGARDING  BLOOD  TO  BE USED FOR TRANSFUSION IN THE
 EVENT THAT HIS OR HER PRE-DONATED BLOOD SUPPLY  IS  EXHAUSTED  AND  MORE
 BLOOD FOR TRANSFUSION IS NEEDED.
   §  2.    This  act  shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day
 after it shall have become a law, provided, however,  that  the  commis-
 sioner  of  health  shall  promulgate rules and regulations necessary to
 effectuate the provisions of this act prior to such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03484-01-7

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