Florida SB 1534: Patient-directed Blood Donations

Bill Text

1534 
Patient-directed Blood Donations 
2026-01-09T03:14:33Z 
Creating the “Patient-Directed Blood Donation Act”; requiring blood banks to comply with a licensed physician’s order for an autologous or directed blood donation for a named patient, subject to certain conditions; authorizing blood banks and hospitals to charge a reasonable and necessary fee to cover administrative costs; requiring that all autologous and directed donations be collected, tested, stored, and transfused in accordance with certain laws and standards, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 1534 

 By Senator Pizzo 

 37-01625-26 20261534__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to patient-directed blood donations; 
 3 amending s. 381.0601, F.S.; providing a short title; 
 4 defining terms; requiring blood banks to comply with a 
 5 licensed physician’s order for an autologous or 
 6 directed blood donation for a named patient, subject 
 7 to certain conditions; requiring hospitals that 
 8 facilitate blood donations or contract with blood 
 9 banks to allow patients to provide autologous or 
 10 directed donations under certain circumstances; 
 11 authorizing blood banks and hospitals to charge a 
 12 reasonable and necessary fee to cover administrative 
 13 costs; providing requirements for the fee structure; 
 14 providing construction; requiring that all autologous 
 15 and directed donations be collected, tested, stored, 
 16 and transfused in accordance with certain laws and 
 17 standards; requiring that a unit of blood or blood 
 18 component collected for an autologous or directed 
 19 donation for a specific patient be reserved for that 
 20 patient; providing exceptions; providing for the 
 21 reversion of a reserved unit of blood or blood 
 22 component to general inventory to be used for other 
 23 patients under certain circumstances; authorizing the 
 24 use of a reserved unit of blood or blood component in 
 25 certain emergency circumstances; authorizing the 
 26 Department of Health to adopt rules; providing an 
 27 effective date. 
 28 
 29 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 30 
 31 Section 1. Section 381.0601, Florida Statutes, is amended 
 32 to read: 
 33 (Substantial rewording of section. See 
 34 s. 381.0601, F.S., for present text.) 
 35 381.0601 Patient-directed blood donations.— 
 36 (1) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the “Patient 
 37 Directed Blood Donation Act.” 
 38 (2) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term: 
 39 (a) “Autologous donation” means the collection and storage 
 40 of blood or blood components from an individual for transfusion 
 41 back to the same individual. 
 42 (b) “Blood bank” means any entity licensed under state or 
 43 federal law to collect, process, store, or distribute human 
 44 blood or blood components. 
 45 (c) “Directed donation” means the collection and storage of 
 46 blood or blood components from a specific donor for transfusion 
 47 to a specifically identified patient, ordered by a licensed 
 48 physician. 
 49 (d) “Hospital” has the same meaning as in s. 395.002. 
 50 (3) COMPLIANCE WITH PHYSICIAN ORDERS; DUTIES OF BLOOD BANKS 
 51 AND HOSPITALS.— 
 52 (a) A blood bank shall comply with a licensed physician’s 
 53 order for an autologous or directed blood donation for a named 
 54 patient, subject to applicable medical suitability criteria and 
 55 the availability of services at that facility. 
 56 (b) A hospital that facilitates blood donations or 
 57 contracts with a blood bank shall allow a patient who is 
 58 scheduled for a medical procedure to provide autologous or 
 59 directed donations if ordered by the patient’s licensed 
 60 physician, to the extent that such donations are medically 
 61 appropriate and logistically feasible. 
 62 (4) ADMINISTRATIVE FEES.— 
 63 (a) A blood bank or hospital may charge a fee that is 
 64 reasonable and necessary to cover the administrative costs of 
 65 facilitating autologous and directed donations, including 
 66 collection, processing, testing, storage, and distribution. 
 67 (b) Fees authorized under this subsection may not be 
 68 structured in a manner that unreasonably deters medically 
 69 appropriate autologous or directed donations as ordered by a 
 70 licensed physician. 
 71 (5) SAFETY AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE.—This section does not 
 72 alter or diminish any requirement under federal or state law 
 73 regarding donor eligibility, screening, testing, labeling, 
 74 storage, recordkeeping, or compatibility of blood and blood 
 75 components, including requirements of the United States Food and 
 76 Drug Administration and applicable accreditation standards. All 
 77 autologous and directed donations must be collected, tested, 
 78 stored, and transfused in accordance with such laws and 
 79 standards. 
 80 (6) REVERSION TO GENERAL INVENTORY; EMERGENCY EXCEPTION.— 
 81 (a) A unit of blood or b