 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7708
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 7, 2022
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        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.
                                                                   LBD00571-02-2
        S. 7708                             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.
Relates to source plasma donation centers

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