Bill Text: NY A05789 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for availability of ambulance services and advanced life support first response service to store and distribute blood and initiate and administer blood transfusions, by expanding current provisions for air transport to apply additionally to motor vehicle based ambulance services.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-9)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-17 - signed chap.316 [A05789 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05789-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5789--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  availability  of
          ambulance services and advanced life support first response service to
          store  and  distribute  blood and initiate and administer blood trans-
          fusions

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  3003-b  of  the public health law, as amended by
     2  chapter 61 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 3003-b. Availability of ambulance service [that provides transporta-
     4  tion by aircraft] and advanced life support first  response  service  to
     5  store  and  distribute  blood  and  initiate and administer blood trans-
     6  fusions. 1. An ambulance service or advanced life support first response
     7  service licensed under this article  [that  provides  transportation  by
     8  aircraft] may store and distribute human blood and blood products at all
     9  their  facilities and qualified medical and health personnel, as defined
    10  in this article, operating within an ambulance service or advanced  life
    11  support first response service licensed under this article, may initiate
    12  and  administer human blood and blood product transfusions while provid-
    13  ing [air transport] ambulance services or advanced life support care via
    14  an advanced life support mobile unit. As used  in  this  section,  "[air
    15  transport]  ambulance  services"  means  emergency  medical care and the
    16  transportation of sick or injured persons by motor vehicle  or  aircraft
    17  to, from or between general hospitals or other health care facilities.
    18    2.  Notwithstanding  title  five  of article five of this chapter, any
    19  ambulance service  or  advanced  life  support  first  response  service
    20  licensed  under  this  article [that provides transportation by aircraft
    21  and only for purposes of providing air transport  services,]  may  store
    22  and  distribute human blood and blood products in accordance with stand-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10074-02-3
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     1  ards for the storage of blood products of the  United  States  Food  and
     2  Drug  Administration  and  any  rules,  regulations, guidance or minimum
     3  standards established pursuant to this section.
     4    3.  Prior  to  storing  and  distributing  blood or allowing qualified
     5  medical and health personnel to initiate  and  administer  blood  trans-
     6  fusions  under  this  section,  the  ambulance  service or advanced life
     7  support first response service shall ensure that  it  is  in  compliance
     8  with  the  rules, regulations, guidance or minimum standards established
     9  pursuant to this section and other applicable emergency medical  service
    10  requirements,  and  shall  provide  notification  of intent to store and
    11  distribute blood or allow qualified  medical  and  health  personnel  to
    12  initiate  and administer blood transfusions as part of their [air trans-
    13  port] ambulance services or advanced life support care  at  least  sixty
    14  days prior to beginning such care.
    15    4.  The state emergency medical services council, with the approval of
    16  the commissioner, shall promulgate rules and regulations  to  effectuate
    17  the purposes of this section.
    18    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    19  have become a law.