Bill Text: NY A05857 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates a public umbilical cord blood banking program within the department of health to promote public awareness of the potential benefits of public cord banking, to promote research into the uses of cord blood, and to facilitate pre-delivery arrangements for public banking of cord blood donations.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-13 - held for consideration in health [A05857 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05857-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5857 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 20, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FITZPATRICK, MONTESANO, GIGLIO, SALKA -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH, DeSTEFANO, KOLB, MANKTELOW, RAIA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to promotion of public umbilical cord blood banking 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 article 2 43-C to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 43-C 4 PUBLIC UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD BANKING 5 Section 4372. Public umbilical cord blood banking program. 6 § 4372. Public umbilical cord blood banking program. 1. The public 7 umbilical cord blood banking program is hereby established within the 8 department to promote public awareness of the potential benefits of 9 public umbilical cord blood banking, to promote research into the uses 10 of umbilical cord blood, and to facilitate pre-delivery arrangements for 11 public banking of umbilical cord blood donations. 12 2. The department shall: 13 (a) develop a public education and outreach campaign, via written 14 materials, brochures, the internet, and public service announcements to 15 promote public umbilical cord blood banking awareness and education of 16 the general public and potential umbilical cord blood donors of the 17 benefits of public umbilical cord blood banking; 18 (b) develop educational materials and brochures which shall be made 19 available to the general public and potential umbilical cord blood 20 donors through local departments of health; health care practitioners, 21 including obstetricians, gynecologists, pediatricians, and midwives; 22 health maintenance organizations; hospitals; clinics, walk-in medical EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05417-01-9A. 5857 2 1 centers, mobile care units, surgi-centers, and urgent care centers; and 2 clinics and organizations serving pregnant women; 3 (c) coordinate and promote professional education programs for health 4 care providers on the benefits of public umbilical cord blood banking; 5 (d) promote research, through public and private funding sources, in 6 the potential benefits of umbilical cord blood as an alternative to 7 tissue transplantation and as a source of stem cells in the treatment of 8 disease; 9 (e) develop criteria, pursuant to regulation, regarding the appropri- 10 ate collection and storage of umbilical cord blood for public banking; 11 the identification of blood banks and the area served by each such blood 12 bank; the adequacy of safeguards in place at such blood banks to ensure 13 the safe collection and storage of umbilical cord blood; and provisions 14 for arrangements between such blood banks and hospitals, including 15 certification of blood bank personnel, designation of responsibilities 16 and liabilities between such blood bank personnel and hospital person- 17 nel; and any other provisions necessary to ensure the safety of the 18 mother, her child, any such personnel in attendance at the delivery 19 and/or the umbilical cord blood collection site, and the stored umbili- 20 cal cord blood; and 21 (f) establish a statewide toll-free telephone number to receive 22 requests for information and to direct potential umbilical cord blood 23 donors to available public umbilical cord blood banks serving the area 24 in which such potential donor resides or is planning to deliver. 25 3. The commissioner shall accept and expend any grants, awards, or 26 other funds or appropriations as may be made available for the purposes 27 of this article, subject to limitations as to the approval of expendi- 28 tures and audit as prescribed for state funds by the state finance law. 29 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 30 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 31 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 32 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 33 completed on or before such date.
