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HB0135 • 2025

Autologous or direct blood donations.

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing the use of autologous or direct blood donations as specified; authorizing reasonable fees for blood donations; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Healthcare
Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Representative Guggenmos
Last action
2025-03-03
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The bill's status as inactive means it no longer moves forward in its current session, but does not specify if or when it might be reintroduced.

Autologous or Direct Blood Donations

This act allows hospitals and blood banks to accept autologous (donating one's own blood for future use) and direct (donating blood specifically for another person's future use) blood donations, sets rules for fees, and requires the Department of Health to create regulations.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows hospitals and other health care facilities to permit patients to donate their own blood before a medical procedure if the facility can handle blood donations.
  • Requires blood banks to follow doctors' orders when facilitating autologous or direct blood donations, unless there are specific health reasons why someone shouldn't donate.
  • Permits blood banks to charge reasonable fees for processing and storing donated blood.
  • Directs the Department of Health to make rules that explain how this new law will work.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Hospitals and other healthcare facilities
  • Blood banks
  • Patients who need medical procedures

Terms To Know

Autologous blood donation
When a person donates their own blood for personal use during a future medical procedure.
Direct blood donation
When a person donates blood specifically for another person's use during that person’s future medical procedure.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass in the Senate and is now inactive.
  • It does not specify what 'reasonable fees' are, leaving it up to interpretation by blood banks.
  • Details on how the Department of Health will create rules for implementing this act are not provided.

Bill History

  1. 2025-03-03 Senate

    S:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 5-4

  2. 2025-02-28 Senate

    S No report prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2025-02-26 Senate

    S10 - Labor:Do Pass Failed 2-3-0-0-0

  4. 2025-02-11 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S10 - Labor

  5. 2025-01-30 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  6. 2025-01-30 House

    H 3rd Reading:Passed 57-3-2-0-0

  7. 2025-01-29 House

    H 2nd Reading:Passed

  8. 2025-01-28 House

    H COW:Passed

  9. 2025-01-22 House

    H Placed on General File

  10. 2025-01-22 House

    H10 - Labor:Recommend Do Pass 6-2-1-0-0

  11. 2025-01-15 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H10 - Labor

  12. 2025-01-09 House

    H Received for Introduction

  13. 2025-01-09 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0375
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0375
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0135

Autologous or direct blood donations.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Guggenmos, Angelos, Hoeft, Lien, Ottman and Rodriguez-Williams and Senator(s) Hutchings and Steinmetz

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to public health and safety; authorizing the use of autologous or direct blood donations as specified; authorizing reasonable fees for blood donations; providing definitions; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 35
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34
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101 is created to read:

CHAPTER 34
AUTOLOGOUS OR DIRECT BLOOD DONATIONS

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101.

Autologous or direct blood donations; requirements.

(a)

For purposes of this section:

(i)

"Autologous blood donation" means when a person donates the person's own blood for personal use during a future medical procedure;

(ii)

"Direct blood donation" means when a person donates the person's blood specifically for the use of another person during the other person's future medical procedure.

(b)

A hospital or other health care facility licensed under this title shall allow a person on whom a medical procedure is to be performed at the facility to donate a health care provider
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ordered autologous or direct blood donation before the medical procedure if the facility performs blood donations.

(c)

A blood bank that facilitates autologous or direct blood donations shall comply with a health care provider's order prescribing an autologous or direct blood donation for a person, unless the person donating blood is in ill health, has a heart condition that makes donating blood inadvisable, the person weighs too little to donate blood, or the person cannot or should not donate blood for any other reason.

(d)

A blood bank may charge not more than their regular fee to facilitate an autologous or direct blood donation ordered by a health care provider under subsection (c) of this section. The blood bank may charge a fee to store the donated blood until it is used by the person meant to receive it.

Section 2.

The department of health shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 3.

(a)

Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2025.

(b)

Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

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