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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AUTOLOGOUS OR DIRECT BLOOD | |
DONATIONS | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Lima, and Santucci | |
Date Introduced: February 28, 2025 | |
Referred To: House Health & Human Services | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Title 23 of the General Laws entitled "HEALTH AND SAFETY" is hereby |
2 | amended by adding thereto the following chapter: |
3 | CHAPTER 4.15 |
4 | AUTOLOGOUS OR DIRECT BLOOD DONATIONS |
5 | 23-4.15-1. Autologous or direct blood donations -- Requirements. |
6 | (a) For purposes of this section: |
7 | (1) "Autologous blood donation" means when a person donates the person's own blood for |
8 | personal use during a future medical procedure. |
9 | (2) "Direct blood donation" means when a person donates the person's blood specifically |
10 | for the use of another person during the other person's future medical procedure. |
11 | (b) A hospital or other healthcare facility licensed under this title 23 shall allow a person |
12 | on whom a medical procedure is to be performed at the facility to donate a healthcare |
13 | provider‑ordered autologous or direct blood donation before the medical procedure if the facility |
14 | performs blood donations. |
15 | (c) A blood bank that facilitates autologous or direct blood donations shall comply with a |
16 | healthcare provider's order prescribing an autologous or direct blood donation for a person, unless |
17 | the person donating blood is in ill health, has a heart condition that makes donating blood |
18 | inadvisable, the person weighs too little to donate blood, or the person cannot or should not donate |
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1 | blood for any other reason. |
2 | (d) A blood bank may charge not more than their regular fee to facilitate an autologous or |
3 | direct blood donation ordered by a healthcare provider under subsection (c) of this section. The |
4 | blood bank may charge a fee to store the donated blood until it is used by the person meant to |
5 | receive it. |
6 | (e) The department of health shall promulgate all rules and regulations necessary to |
7 | implement this section. |
8 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AUTOLOGOUS OR DIRECT BLOOD | |
DONATIONS | |
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1 | This act would provide for autologous blood donations. |
2 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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