Bill Text: NY A02561 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes air transport ambulance service providers to store and distribute human blood at all their facilities and distribute human blood and blood products and to initiate and administer transfusions of the same while providing air transport services.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-24 - substituted by s4085a [A02561 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02561-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2561--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. WOERNER, McDONALD, LUPARDO, ANGELINO, DICKENS,
          HUNTER, WALCZYK, GALEF, GOTTFRIED, BARRON,  BYRNE  --  read  once  and
          referred  to  the  Committee  on  Health -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee  --  reported  and  referred  to  the  Committee on Rules -- Rules
          Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to the Committee on Rules

        AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to availability of
          air transport ambulance service  providers  to  store  and  distribute
          human  blood  and blood products and to initiate and administer trans-
          fusions of the same

          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  3003-b to read as follows:
     3    § 3003-b. Availability of air transport ambulance service providers to
     4  store and distribute blood and  initiate  and  administer  blood  trans-
     5  fusions. 1. As used in this section, "air transport services" shall mean
     6  emergency medical care and the transportation of sick or injured persons
     7  by  aircraft to, from, or between general hospitals or other health care
     8  facilities.
     9    2.  An ambulance service provider licensed  under  this  article  that
    10  provides air transport services may store and distribute human blood and
    11  blood products at all their facilities and initiate and administer human
    12  blood  and  blood  product  transfusions  while  providing air transport
    13  services.
    14    3. Notwithstanding section five hundred seventy-four of this  chapter,
    15  any  ambulance  service  provider licensed pursuant to this article that
    16  provides air transport services, may store and  distribute  human  blood
    17  and blood products in accordance with section thirty-one hundred of this
    18  chapter;  provided, however, an ambulance service provider shall meet or
    19  exceed all standards for the storage of blood  products  of  the  United
    20  States Food and Drug Administration.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01353-05-1