Bill Text: NY S02566 | 2019-2020 | 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) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02566 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02566-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2566
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- 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-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
    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.
                                                                   LBD05417-01-9
        S. 2566                             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    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    28  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    29  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    30  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    31  completed on or before such date.