No. SB 1534
Filed under Healthcare.
Patient-directed Blood Donations; 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.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDBlood banks must comply with a licensed physician's order for an autologous or directed blood donation naming a specific patient, though the duty bends to medical suitability rules and whether the facility can actually provide the service.
Hospitals that facilitate donations or work with a blood bank must let a patient scheduled for a procedure make these donations, as long as doing so is medically appropriate and logistically feasible for that hospital.
Blood banks and hospitals can charge a reasonable fee to cover the administrative cost of these donations, but the fee cannot be set so high that it discourages a patient from getting one a physician has ordered.
A unit reserved for one patient normally stays reserved until it is no longer needed or appropriate for them, but in a documented life-or-death emergency with no other suitable blood available, it can be redirected to save someone else.
AIA blood bank must comply with a licensed physician's order for an autologous or directed blood donation naming a specific patient, subject only to medical suitability criteria and whether the facility has the capacity to provide the service.
AIA hospital that facilitates blood donations or contracts with a blood bank must let a patient scheduled for a procedure make an autologous or directed donation ordered by their physician, limited by what is medically appropriate and logistically feasible.
AIA unit collected for a specific patient must stay reserved for them until it is no longer needed or appropriate, but in a documented emergency requiring immediate transfusion to prevent serious harm or death, with no suitable alternative available, it may be released to another patient instead.
AIA blood bank or hospital may charge a reasonable and necessary fee for the administrative cost of these donations, but the fee cannot be structured in a way that unreasonably discourages a medically appropriate directed or autologous donation.
AIThe new right to a directed or autologous donation does not override any existing federal or state safety requirement; all such donations must still be collected, tested, stored, and transfused under current donor-eligibility, screening, and FDA standards.