Bill Text: NJ A402 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Individual's status as minor may not disqualify him from bone marrow donation if medical criteria and informed consent requirements are met.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-16 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee [A402 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A402-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 402

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  ANTHONY M. BUCCO

District 25 (Morris and Somerset)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Individual's status as minor may not disqualify him from bone marrow donation if medical criteria and informed consent requirements are met.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning bone marrow donation and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    An individual's status as a minor may not disqualify him from bone marrow donation if the minor meets the medical criteria for bone marrow donation, the minor's parent or legal guardian provides written consent, and a medical informed consent is signed as required by law.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that an individual's status as a minor may not disqualify him from bone marrow donation if the minor meets the medical criteria for bone marrow donation, the minor's parent or legal guardian provides written consent, and a medical informed consent is signed as required by law.

     This bill, which is similar to legislation enacted in Washington State in 2000, is in response to the policy of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) to exclude individuals under 18 years of age from registering to be volunteer bone marrow donors.  The NMDP is a nonprofit organization that facilitates unrelated bone marrow and blood stem cell transplants for patients with life-threatening diseases who do not have matching donors in their families, through its Be The Match Registry.  The NMDP is authorized by the federal government to operate the C. W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program, the federal program supporting bone marrow and cord blood donation and transplantation.