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

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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 18-9)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-14 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A05789 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5789

                               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

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  availability  of
          ambulance  services  to  store  and  distribute blood and initiate and
          administer blood transfusions

          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] to store and distribute blood and initiate and  admin-
     5  ister  blood  transfusions.  1. An ambulance service licensed under this
     6  article  [that  provides  transportation  by  aircraft]  may  store  and
     7  distribute  human  blood  and blood products at all their facilities and
     8  qualified medical and health personnel,  as  defined  in  this  article,
     9  operating  within  an ambulance service licensed under this article, may
    10  initiate and administer human blood and blood product transfusions while
    11  providing [air transport] ambulance services. As used in  this  section,
    12  "[air  transport]  ambulance  services" means emergency medical care and
    13  the transportation of sick  or  injured  persons  by  motor  vehicle  or
    14  aircraft  to,  from  or  between  general hospitals or other health care
    15  facilities.
    16    2. Notwithstanding title five of article five  of  this  chapter,  any
    17  ambulance service licensed under this article [that provides transporta-
    18  tion  by  aircraft  and  only  for  purposes  of providing air transport
    19  services,] may store and distribute human blood and  blood  products  in
    20  accordance  with  standards  for  the  storage  of blood products of the
    21  United States Food and Drug Administration and any  rules,  regulations,
    22  guidance or minimum standards established pursuant to this section.
    23    3.  Prior  to  storing  and  distributing  blood or allowing qualified
    24  medical and health personnel to initiate  and  administer  blood  trans-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10074-01-3
        A. 5789                             2

     1  fusions  under  this section, the ambulance service shall ensure that it
     2  is in compliance with the rules, regulations, guidance or minimum stand-
     3  ards established pursuant to this section and other applicable emergency
     4  medical  service  requirements, and shall provide notification of intent
     5  to store and distribute blood or  allow  qualified  medical  and  health
     6  personnel to initiate and administer blood transfusions as part of their
     7  [air  transport]  ambulance services at least sixty days prior to begin-
     8  ning such care.
     9    4. The state emergency medical services council, with the approval  of
    10  the  commissioner,  shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate
    11  the purposes of this section.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.