Bill Text: NY S02086 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02086 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02086-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2086
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 21, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen. HASSELL-THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and when printed to be committed 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-D to read as follows:
    3                                 ARTICLE 43-D
    4                     PUBLIC UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD BANKING
    5  SECTION 4372. PUBLIC UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD BANKING PROGRAM.
    6    S  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
   23  CENTERS, MOBILE CARE UNITS, SURGI-CENTERS, AND URGENT CARE CENTERS;  AND
   24  CLINICS AND ORGANIZATIONS SERVING PREGNANT WOMEN;
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05736-01-5
       S. 2086                             2
    1    (C)  COORDINATE AND PROMOTE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR HEALTH
    2  CARE PROVIDERS ON THE BENEFITS OF PUBLIC UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD BANKING;
    3    (D)  PROMOTE  RESEARCH, THROUGH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDING SOURCES, IN
    4  THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF UMBILICAL CORD  BLOOD  AS  AN  ALTERNATIVE  TO
    5  TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION AND AS A SOURCE OF STEM CELLS IN THE TREATMENT OF
    6  DISEASE;
    7    (E)  DEVELOP CRITERIA, PURSUANT TO REGULATION, REGARDING THE APPROPRI-
    8  ATE COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD FOR  PUBLIC  BANKING;
    9  THE IDENTIFICATION OF BLOOD BANKS AND THE AREA SERVED BY EACH SUCH BLOOD
   10  BANK;  THE ADEQUACY OF SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE AT SUCH BLOOD BANKS TO ENSURE
   11  THE SAFE COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; AND  PROVISIONS
   12  FOR  ARRANGEMENTS  BETWEEN  SUCH  BLOOD  BANKS  AND HOSPITALS, INCLUDING
   13  CERTIFICATION OF BLOOD BANK PERSONNEL, DESIGNATION  OF  RESPONSIBILITIES
   14  AND  LIABILITIES  BETWEEN SUCH BLOOD BANK PERSONNEL AND HOSPITAL PERSON-
   15  NEL; AND ANY OTHER PROVISIONS NECESSARY TO  ENSURE  THE  SAFETY  OF  THE
   16  MOTHER,  HER  CHILD,  ANY  SUCH  PERSONNEL IN ATTENDANCE AT THE DELIVERY
   17  AND/OR THE UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD COLLECTION SITE, AND THE STORED  UMBILI-
   18  CAL CORD BLOOD; AND
   19    (F)  ESTABLISH  A  STATEWIDE  TOLL-FREE  TELEPHONE  NUMBER  TO RECEIVE
   20  REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION AND TO DIRECT POTENTIAL  UMBILICAL  CORD  BLOOD
   21  DONORS  TO  AVAILABLE PUBLIC UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD BANKS SERVING THE AREA
   22  IN WHICH SUCH POTENTIAL DONOR RESIDES OR IS PLANNING TO DELIVER.
   23    3. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ACCEPT AND EXPEND  ANY  GRANTS,  AWARDS,  OR
   24  OTHER  FUNDS OR APPROPRIATIONS AS MAY BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE PURPOSES
   25  OF THIS ARTICLE, SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS AS TO THE APPROVAL  OF  EXPENDI-
   26  TURES AND AUDIT AS PRESCRIBED FOR STATE FUNDS BY THE STATE FINANCE LAW.
   27    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   28  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
   29  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
   30  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
   31  authorized  and  directed  to  be  made  and completed on or before such
   32  effective date.