Bill Text: NY S04085 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes air transport ambulance service providers to store and distribute human blood at all their facilities and distribute human blood and blood products and to initiate and administer transfusions of the same while providing air transport services.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)

Status: (Passed) 2021-12-22 - APPROVAL MEMO.135 [S04085 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04085-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4085--A
            Cal. No. 664

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 2, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens. HINCHEY, AKSHAR, GALLIVAN, HELMING, MAY, OBERACKER
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Health -- reported  favorably  from  said  committee,
          ordered  to  first  and  second  report,  ordered  to a third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  in  the  order  of
          third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to availability of
          air transport ambulance service  providers  to  store  and  distribute
          blood

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  3003-b to read as follows:
     3    § 3003-b. Availability of air transport ambulance service providers to
     4  store  and  distribute  blood  and  initiate and administer blood trans-
     5  fusions. 1. As used in this section, "air transport services" shall mean
     6  emergency medical care and the transportation of sick or injured persons
     7  by aircraft to, from, or between general hospitals or other health  care
     8  facilities.
     9    2.    An  ambulance  service provider licensed under this article that
    10  provides air transport services may store and distribute human blood and
    11  blood products at all their facilities and initiate and administer human
    12  blood and blood  product  transfusions  while  providing  air  transport
    13  services.
    14    3.  Notwithstanding section five hundred seventy-four of this chapter,
    15  any ambulance service provider licensed pursuant to  this  article  that
    16  provides  air  transport  services, may store and distribute human blood
    17  and blood products in accordance with section thirty-one hundred of this
    18  chapter; provided, however, an ambulance service provider shall meet  or
    19  exceed  all  standards  for  the storage of blood products of the United
    20  States Food and Drug Administration.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01353-04-1