Bill Text: NY A02381 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants to not-for-profit organizations and elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools to be used to help pay for the costs of conducting local blood drives.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2018-12-07 - tabled [A02381 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02381-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2381
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 18, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, DINOWITZ, PAULIN, SCHIMMINGER, ORTIZ,
          JAFFEE, SKOUFIS, SEPULVEDA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  AUBRY,
          CARROLL, COLTON, GALEF, HOOPER, MOSLEY, PERRY, RIVERA, SOLAGES -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Health
        AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing the
          commissioner of health to make grants to be  used  for  the  costs  of
          conducting a local blood donation drive
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3100 of the public health law is amended to read as
     2  follows:
     3    § 3100. Human blood and its derivatives; collection, processing, stor-
     4  age and distribution; general powers of commissioner.   1.  The  commis-
     5  sioner is hereby authorized:
     6    (a)  to  establish,  equip, maintain and conduct a suitable program to
     7  collect, process, store and distribute  human  blood,  and  the  various
     8  human  blood  derivatives  including  special therapeutic and diagnostic
     9  serums, which are deemed of value in the treatment of sick  and  injured
    10  persons, and the prevention of certain diseases;
    11    (b) to carry out such educational and research activities as he or she
    12  may deem necessary in connection with said program; [and]
    13    (c)  to  make grants, within amounts appropriated for this purpose, to
    14  not-for-profit organizations and elementary, secondary and postsecondary
    15  schools to be used to help pay for the costs of conducting a local blood
    16  donation drive; and
    17    (d) to establish necessary rules and regulations to effect the purpose
    18  of this article.
    19    2. The commissioner may conduct such program solely as a state  activ-
    20  ity,  or  in  cooperation with such institutions, hospitals or municipal
    21  corporations as he or she may select, on such terms  as  may  be  agreed
    22  upon.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02213-01-7
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