Bill Text: NY A05857 | 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: 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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5857
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 20, 2019
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        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.
                                                                   LBD05417-01-9
        A. 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.