Full Text of SB0019 95th General Assembly
SB0019eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning public health.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Department of Public Health Powers and | 5 |
| Duties Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is | 6 |
| amended by adding Section 2310-577 as follows: | 7 |
| (20 ILCS 2310/2310-577 new) | 8 |
| Sec. 2310-577. Cord blood stem cell banks. | 9 |
| (a) Subject to appropriation, the Department shall | 10 |
| establish a statewide network of human cord blood stem cell | 11 |
| banks. The Director shall enter into contracts with qualified | 12 |
| cord blood stem cell banks to assist in the establishment, | 13 |
| provision, and maintenance of the network. | 14 |
| (b) A cord blood stem cell bank is eligible to enter the | 15 |
| network and be a donor bank if it satisfies each of the | 16 |
| following: | 17 |
| (1) Has obtained all applicable federal and State | 18 |
| licenses, accreditations, certifications, registrations, | 19 |
| and other authorizations required to operate and maintain a | 20 |
| cord blood stem cell bank. | 21 |
| (2) Has implemented donor screening and cord blood | 22 |
| collection practices adequate to protect both donors and | 23 |
| transplant recipients and to prevent transmission of |
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| potentially harmful infections and other diseases. | 2 |
| (3) Has established a system of strict confidentiality | 3 |
| to protect the identity and privacy of patients and donors | 4 |
| in accordance with existing federal and State law and | 5 |
| consistent with regulations promulgated under the Health | 6 |
| Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, | 7 |
| Public Law 104-191, for the release of the identity of | 8 |
| donors, the identity of recipients, or identifiable | 9 |
| records. | 10 |
| (4) Has established a system for encouraging donation | 11 |
| by an ethnically and racially diverse group of donors. | 12 |
| (5) Has developed adequate systems for communication | 13 |
| with other cord blood stem cell banks, transplant centers, | 14 |
| and physicians with respect to the request, release, and | 15 |
| distribution of cord blood units nationally and has | 16 |
| developed those systems, consistent with the regulations | 17 |
| promulgated under the Health Insurance Portability and | 18 |
| Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191, to track | 19 |
| recipients' clinical outcomes for distributed units. | 20 |
| (6) Has developed an objective system for educating the | 21 |
| public, including patient advocacy organizations, about | 22 |
| the benefits of donating and utilizing cord blood stem | 23 |
| cells in appropriate circumstances. | 24 |
| (c) A donor bank that enters into the network shall do all | 25 |
| of the following: | 26 |
| (1) Acquire, tissue-type, test, cryopreserve, and |
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| store donated units of human cord blood acquired with the | 2 |
| informed consent of the donor, in a manner that complies | 3 |
| with applicable federal regulations. | 4 |
| (2) Make cord blood units collected under this Section, | 5 |
| or otherwise, available to transplant centers for stem cell | 6 |
| transplantation. | 7 |
| (3) Allocate up to 10% of the cord blood inventory each | 8 |
| year for peer-reviewed research. This quota may be met by | 9 |
| using cord blood units that did not meet the cell count | 10 |
| standards necessary for transplantation.
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| (d) An advisory committee shall advise the Department | 12 |
| concerning the administration of the State cord blood stem cell | 13 |
| bank network. The committee shall be appointed by the Director | 14 |
| and consist of members who represent each of the following: | 15 |
| (1) Cord blood stem cell transplant centers. | 16 |
| (2) Physicians from participating birthing hospitals. | 17 |
| (3) The cord blood stem cell research community. | 18 |
| (4) Recipients of cord blood stem cell transplants. | 19 |
| (5) Family members who have made a donation to a | 20 |
| statewide cord blood stem cell bank. | 21 |
| (6) Individuals with expertise in the social sciences. | 22 |
| (7) Members of the general public. | 23 |
| (8) Each network donor bank.
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| Except as otherwise provided under this subsection, each | 25 |
| member of the committee shall serve for a 3-year term and may | 26 |
| be reappointed for one or more additional terms. Appointments |
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| for the initial members shall be for terms of 1, 2, and 3 | 2 |
| years, respectively, so as to provide for the subsequent | 3 |
| appointment of an equal number of members each year. The | 4 |
| committee shall elect a chairperson. | 5 |
| (e) The Department shall do each of the following:
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| (1) Ensure that the donor banks within the network meet | 7 |
| the requirements of subsection (b) on a continuing basis. | 8 |
| (2) Encourage network donor banks to work | 9 |
| collaboratively with other network donor banks and | 10 |
| encourage network donor banks to focus their resources in | 11 |
| their respective local or regional area. | 12 |
| (3) Designate one or more established national or | 13 |
| international cord blood registries to serve as a statewide | 14 |
| cord blood stem cell registry. | 15 |
| (4) Coordinate the donor banks in the network.
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| In performing these duties, the Department may seek the | 17 |
| advice of the advisory committee.
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| (f) Definitions. As used in this Section: | 19 |
| (1) "Cord blood unit" means the blood collected from a | 20 |
| single placenta and umbilical cord. | 21 |
| (2) "Donor" means a mother who has delivered a baby and | 22 |
| consents to donate the newborn's blood remaining in the | 23 |
| placenta and umbilical cord. | 24 |
| (3) "Donor bank" means a qualified cord blood stem cell | 25 |
| bank that enters into a contract with the Director under | 26 |
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| (4) "Human cord blood stem cells" means hematopoietic | 2 |
| stem cells and any other stem cells contained in the | 3 |
| neonatal blood collected immediately after the birth from | 4 |
| the separated placenta and umbilical cord. | 5 |
| (5) "Network" means the statewide network of qualified | 6 |
| cord blood stem cell banks established under this Section.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 8 |
| becoming law.
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