Plain English Breakdown
The official status indicates the bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, but an effective date has not been set yet.
Changes to Rules for Blood Banks and Plasma Centers
This law changes how licenses work when staff change, expands ID options for paid blood donors, clarifies rules for plasma centers, and updates who can perform certain medical tests.
What This Bill Does
- Removes the rule that automatically cancels a license if the person in charge of production leaves.
- Requires facilities to name a new leader within 30 days or face license revocation unless an extension is granted by the department.
- Allows paid blood donors to use ID from state, federal, or tribal agencies instead of only Department of Motor Vehicles IDs.
- States that licensed source plasma donation centers are not classified as blood bank depositories.
- Exempts certain plasma centers from clinical laboratory license rules if they only perform total protein tests.
- Allows supervising doctors to assign donor screening tasks to other licensed health care professionals.
Who It Names or Affects
- Licensed blood banks and transfusion services
- Source plasma donation centers
- Paid donors of human whole blood or blood components
- Supervising physicians and clinical laboratory directors
Terms To Know
- Biologics production
- The process of making products from living things, such as human blood.
- Blood bank depository
- A facility that stores and manages blood for transfusion under specific state rules.
- Total protein test
- A medical check to measure the amount of protein in a donor's plasma using a digital tool called a refractometer.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not state when it will officially take effect.
- Specific details on how long an extension for naming a new leader can last are set by the department, not this text.
- The exact reason why no reimbursement is required to local agencies is listed as 'specified' but not detailed in this summary.