Bill Text: NJ S1746 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
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 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-05 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S1746 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-S1746-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator ANTHONY R. 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
As introduced.
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.
