New York A 5956: Creates a public umbilical cord blood banking program

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A05956 Summary:

BILL NOA05956 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01657

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SPONSORFitzpatrick

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 43-C §4375, Pub Health L

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Creates a public umbilical cord blood banking program within the department of health to promote public awareness of the potential benefits of public cord banking, to promote research into the uses of cord blood, and to facilitate pre-delivery arrangements for public banking of cord blood donations.

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BILL NOA05956 

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02/25/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5956

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 25, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. FITZPATRICK -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to promotion of
 public umbilical cord blood banking

 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 article
 2 43-C to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 43-C
 4 PUBLIC UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD BANKING
 5 Section 4375. Public umbilical cord blood banking program.
 6 § 4375. Public umbilical cord blood banking program. 1. The public
 7 umbilical cord blood banking program is hereby established within the
 8 department to promote public awareness of the potential benefits of
 9 public umbilical cord blood banking, to promote research into the uses
 10 of umbilical cord blood, and to facilitate pre-delivery arrangements for
 11 public banking of umbilical cord blood donations.
 12 2. The department shall:
 13 (a) develop a public education and outreach campaign, via written
 14 materials, brochures, the internet, and public service announcements to
 15 promote public umbilical cord blood banking awareness and education of
 16 the general public and potential umbilical cord blood donors of the
 17 benefits of public umbilical cord blood banking;
 18 (b) develop educational materials and brochures which shall be made
 19 available to the general public and potential umbilical cord blood
 20 donors through local departments of health; health care practitioners,
 21 including obstetricians, gynecologists, pediatricians, and midwives;
 22 health maintenance organizations; hospitals; clinics, walk-in medical
 23 centers, mobile care units, surgi-centers, and urgent care centers; and
 24 clinics and organizations serving pregnant people;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04712-01-5

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 1 (c) coordinate and promote professional education programs for health
 2 care providers on the benefits of public umbilical cord blood banking;
 3 (d) promote research, through public and private funding sources, in
 4 the potential benefits of umbilical cord blood as an alternative to
 5 tissue transplantation and as a source of stem cells in the treatment of
 6 disease;
 7 (e) develop criteria, pursuant to regulation, regarding the appropri-
 8 ate collection and storage of umbilical cord blood for public banking;
 9 the identification of blood banks and the area served by each such blood
 10 bank; the adequacy of safeguards in place at such blood banks to ensure
 11 the safe collection and storage of umbilical cord blood; and provisions
 12 for arrangements between such blood banks and hospitals, including
 13 certification of blood bank personnel, designation of responsibilities
 14 and liabilities between such blood bank personnel and hospital person-
 15 nel; and any other provisions necessary to ensure the safety of the
 16 birthing parent, their child, any such personnel in attendance at the
 17 delivery and/or the umbilical cord blood collection site, and the stored
 18 umbilical cord blood; and
 19 (f) establish a statewide toll-free telephone number to receive
 20 requests for information and to direct potential umbilical cord blood
 21 donors to available public umbilical cord blood banks serving the area
 22 in which such potential donor resid