Bill Text: NY S06226 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 (Republican 6-3)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-29 - SUBSTITUTED BY A5789A [S06226 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06226-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6226--A
            Cal. No. 1112

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. HINCHEY, WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- commit-
          tee discharged and said bill committed to the Committee  on  Rules  --
          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
          ambulance services and advanced life support first response service to
          store  and  distribute  blood and initiate and administer blood trans-
          fusions

          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] and advanced life support first  response  service  to
     5  store  and  distribute  blood  and  initiate and administer blood trans-
     6  fusions. 1. An ambulance service or advanced life support first response
     7  service licensed under this article  [that  provides  transportation  by
     8  aircraft] may store and distribute human blood and blood products at all
     9  their  facilities and qualified medical and health personnel, as defined
    10  in this article, operating within an ambulance service or advanced  life
    11  support first response service licensed under this article, may initiate
    12  and  administer human blood and blood product transfusions while provid-
    13  ing [air transport] ambulance services or advanced life support care via
    14  an advanced life support mobile unit. As used  in  this  section,  "[air
    15  transport]  ambulance  services"  means  emergency  medical care and the
    16  transportation of sick or injured persons by motor vehicle  or  aircraft
    17  to, from or between general hospitals or other health care facilities.
    18    2.  Notwithstanding  title  five  of article five of this chapter, any
    19  ambulance service  or  advanced  life  support  first  response  service
    20  licensed  under  this  article [that provides transportation by aircraft

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  and only for purposes of providing air transport  services,]  may  store
     2  and  distribute human blood and blood products in accordance with stand-
     3  ards for the storage of blood products of the  United  States  Food  and
     4  Drug  Administration  and  any  rules,  regulations, guidance or minimum
     5  standards established pursuant to this section.
     6    3. Prior to storing  and  distributing  blood  or  allowing  qualified
     7  medical  and  health  personnel  to initiate and administer blood trans-
     8  fusions under this section,  the  ambulance  service  or  advanced  life
     9  support  first  response  service  shall ensure that it is in compliance
    10  with the rules, regulations, guidance or minimum  standards  established
    11  pursuant  to this section and other applicable emergency medical service
    12  requirements, and shall provide notification  of  intent  to  store  and
    13  distribute  blood  or  allow  qualified  medical and health personnel to
    14  initiate and administer blood transfusions as part of their [air  trans-
    15  port]  ambulance  services  or advanced life support care at least sixty
    16  days prior to beginning such care.
    17    4. The state emergency medical services council, with the approval  of
    18  the  commissioner,  shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate
    19  the purposes of this section.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    21  have become a law.