Bill Text: NY A08837 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to source plasma donation centers and certain services they provide.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-31 - substituted by s7708 [A08837 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A08837-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8837 IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2022 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to certain services provided by source plasma donation centers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 2-b of section 571 of the public health 2 law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 436 of the laws of 1993 and 3 subdivision 2-b as added by a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the 4 public health law relating to source plasma donation centers, as 5 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2119 and A. 228, are amended to 6 read as follows: 7 2. "Blood bank" means a facility for the collection, processing, stor- 8 age and/or distribution of human blood, blood components or blood deriv- 9 atives, but shall not mean a source plasma donation center. 10 2-b. "Plasmapheresis" means a procedure [in] by which, during a single 11 visit to the facility, blood is removed from an individual, the source 12 plasma separated from the formed elements, and at least the red blood 13 cells are returned to the donor. 14 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 575-a of the public health law, as added 15 by a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the public health law relating 16 to source plasma donation centers, as proposed in legislative bills 17 numbers S. 2119 and A. 228, is amended to read as follows: 18 1. [A] Notwithstanding section five hundred seventy-four and subdivi- 19 sion one of section five hundred seventy-one of this chapter, a source 20 plasma donation center may collect source plasma through plasmapheresis, 21 and may employ a person to perform total protein tests using digital 22 refractometers, and to perform hematocrit tests, if the source plasma 23 donation center and such person comply with all the requirements of 24 federal law and regulations governing the collection of source plasma, 25 including, but not limited to, laws governing staff supervision, train- 26 ing, and duties, including requirements for performing total protein 27 tests using digital refractometers in a source plasma donation center. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00571-02-2A. 8837 2 1 § 3. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 2 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the public health law 3 relating to source plasma donation centers, as proposed in legislative 4 bills numbers S. 2119 and A. 228, takes effect.