NY State Senate Bill 2019-S8346

Senate Bill S8346

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the availability of air transport ambulance service providers to store and distribute blood

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May 15, 2020	referred to health

2019-S8346 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A11116
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §3003-e, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:: S4085, A2561

2019-S8346 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes air transport ambulance service providers to store and distribute human blood at all their facilities and distribute human blood while providing air transport services.

2019-S8346 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S8346

SPONSOR: METZGER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends public health law to add a new section to allow for air
transport ambulances to store and distribute blood. Distribution of the
blood is limited to only a registered nurse on the aircraft.  The new
section also sets forth the standards of care that air transport ambu-
lances must adhere to when handling, storing and distributing the blood.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Air ambulance services often need to transfuse blood products in order

to resuscitate a patient during transport. However, regulations in this
state do not allow air ambulance services to do so without becoming an
Ambulance Transfusion Service which, among other barriers, requires a
written agreement between the air ambulance and the hospital blood bank
that provides the blood products for the patient. Obtaining written
agreements with each hospital blood bank can be impracticable. Moreover,
this regulation only allows for transfusion during transport between
hospitals, and does not provide for any ambulance to carry its own blood
products to administer to patients in hemorrhagic shock.

New York is the only state that does not currently allow for air ambu-
lance services to transfuse blood products. This bill would put New York
on par with every other state and allow air ambulances to carry their
own blood products and transfuse patients in hemorrhagic shock. These
critical care medical providers, practicing in the unique healthcare
environment of air ambulances, have an opportunity to save the lives of
the citizens of New York.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediate.

2019-S8346 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8346
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 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:

   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 3003-e to read as follows:
   § 3003-E. AVAILABILITY OF AIR TRANSPORT AMBULANCE SERVICE PROVIDERS TO
 STORE AND DISTRIBUTE BLOOD. 1. ANY AMBULANCE PROVIDER AS LICENSED PURSU-
 ANT TO THIS ARTICLE THAT  PROVIDES  AIR  TRANSPORT  SERVICES,  SHALL  BE
 AUTHORIZED  TO  STORE HUMAN BLOOD AT ALL THEIR FACILITIES AND DISTRIBUTE
 HUMAN BLOOD WHILE PROVIDING AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,
 THE ONLY PERSONNEL ON THE AIRCRAFT THAT SHALL DISTRIBUTE THE HUMAN BLOOD
 WHEN TRANSPORTING A PATIENT VIA THE AIRCRAFT SHALL BE A REGISTERED NURSE
 WHO  IS  CURRENTLY LICENSED TO PRACTICE AS A REGISTERED NURSE WITHIN THE
 STATE.
   2. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR  REGULATION  TO
 THE  CONTRARY, ANY AMBULANCE PROVIDER AS LICENSED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTI-
 CLE THAT PROVIDES AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES,  SHALL  STORE  AND  DISTRIBUTE
 HUMAN  BLOOD IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STANDARDS SET FORTH BY SECTION THIR-
 TY-ONE HUNDRED OF THIS CHAPTER; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, AN AMBULANCE PROVIDER
 SHALL MEET OR EXCEED ALL STANDARDS FOR THE STORAGE OF BLOOD PRODUCTS SET
 FORTH BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RECOMMENDED
 BY AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED, NOT-FOR-PROFIT ASSOCIATION  REPRESENT-
 ING  INDIVIDUALS  AND INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED IN THE FIELDS OF TRANSFUSION
 MEDICINE AND CELLULAR THERAPIES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16333-02-0

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