1 | A bill to be entitled |
2 | An act relating to umbilical cord blood banking; creating |
3 | s. 381.06016, F.S.; requiring the Department of Health to |
4 | post on its website certain resources and a website link |
5 | to specified materials regarding umbilical cord blood |
6 | banking; requiring the department to encourage certain |
7 | health care providers to make available to their pregnant |
8 | patients information related to umbilical cord blood |
9 | banking; providing that a health care provider or health |
10 | care facility and its employees or agents are not liable |
11 | for damages in a civil action, subject to prosecution in a |
12 | criminal proceeding, or subject to disciplinary action by |
13 | the appropriate regulatory board for acting in good faith |
14 | to comply with the act; providing an effective date. |
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16 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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18 | Section 1. Section 381.06016, Florida Statutes, is created |
19 | to read: |
20 | 381.06016 Umbilical cord blood awareness.- |
21 | (1) The Department of Health shall make publicly |
22 | available, by posting on its Internet website, resources and an |
23 | Internet website link to materials relating to umbilical cord |
24 | blood which have been developed by the Parent's Guide to Cord |
25 | Blood Foundation, Inc., including: |
26 | (a) An explanation of the potential value and uses of |
27 | umbilical cord blood, including cord blood cells and stem cells, |
28 | for individuals who are, as well as individuals who are not, |
29 | biologically related to a mother or her newborn child. |
30 | (b) An explanation of the differences between using one's |
31 | own cord blood cells and using biologically related or |
32 | biologically unrelated cord blood stem cells in the treatment of |
33 | disease. |
34 | (c) An explanation of the differences between public and |
35 | private umbilical cord blood banking. |
36 | (d) The options available to a mother relating to stem |
37 | cells that are contained in the umbilical cord blood after the |
38 | delivery of her newborn child, including: |
39 | 1. Donating the stem cells to a public umbilical cord |
40 | blood bank where such facilities are available; |
41 | 2. Storing the stem cells in a private family umbilical |
42 | cord blood bank for use by immediate and extended family |
43 | members; |
44 | 3. Storing the stem cells for use by family members |
45 | through a family or sibling donor banking program that provides |
46 | free collection, processing, and storage if there is an existing |
47 | medical need; and |
48 | 4. Discarding the stem cells. |
49 | (e) The medical processes involved in the collection of |
50 | cord blood. |
51 | (f) Criteria for medical or family history that may impact |
52 | a family's consideration of umbilical cord blood banking, |
53 | including the likelihood of using a baby's cord blood to serve |
54 | as a match for a family member who has a medical condition. |
55 | (g) Options for ownership and future use of donated |
56 | umbilical cord blood. |
57 | (h) The average cost of public and private umbilical cord |
58 | blood banking. |
59 | (i) The availability of public and private cord blood |
60 | banks to residents of this state, including: |
61 | 1. A list of public cord blood banks and the hospitals |
62 | served by those blood banks; |
63 | 2. A list of private cord blood banks that are available; |
64 | and |
65 | 3. The availability of free family blood banking and |
66 | sibling donor programs for family members with an existing |
67 | medical need. |
68 | (j) An explanation of which racial and ethnic groups are |
69 | in particular need of publicly donated cord blood samples based |
70 | upon medical data developed by the Health Resources and Services |
71 | Administration of the United States Department of Health and |
72 | Human Services. |
73 | (2) The Department of Health shall encourage health care |
74 | providers who provide health care services that are directly |
75 | related to a woman's pregnancy to make available to a pregnant |
76 | patient before her third trimester of pregnancy, or, if later, |
77 | at the first visit of such patient to the provider, information |
78 | listed under subsection (1) which relates to the patient's |
79 | options regarding umbilical cord blood banking. |
80 | (3) A health care provider or a health care facility, or |
81 | any employee or agent thereof, is not liable for damages in a |
82 | civil action, subject to prosecution in a criminal proceeding, |
83 | or subject to disciplinary action by the appropriate regulatory |
84 | board for acting in good faith to comply with the provisions of |
85 | this section. |
86 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011. |