Bill Text: NY S08346 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 while providing air transport services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-15 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08346 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08346-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8346

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 15, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- 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  availability  of
          air  transport  ambulance  service  providers  to store and distribute
          blood

          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-e to read as follows:
     3    § 3003-e. Availability of air transport ambulance service providers to
     4  store and distribute blood. 1. Any ambulance provider as licensed pursu-
     5  ant to this article that  provides  air  transport  services,  shall  be
     6  authorized  to  store human blood at all their facilities and distribute
     7  human blood while providing air transport services;  provided,  however,
     8  the only personnel on the aircraft that shall distribute the human blood
     9  when transporting a patient via the aircraft shall be a registered nurse
    10  who  is  currently licensed to practice as a registered nurse within the
    11  state.
    12    2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or  regulation  to
    13  the  contrary, any ambulance provider as licensed pursuant to this arti-
    14  cle that provides air transport services,  shall  store  and  distribute
    15  human  blood in accordance with the standards set forth by section thir-
    16  ty-one hundred of this chapter; provided, however, an ambulance provider
    17  shall meet or exceed all standards for the storage of blood products set
    18  forth by the United States Food and Drug Administration, and recommended
    19  by an internationally recognized, not-for-profit association  represent-
    20  ing  individuals  and institutions involved in the fields of transfusion
    21  medicine and cellular therapies.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16333-02-0