A 8439: Authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants to not-for-profit organizations and elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools to be used to help pay for the costs of conducting local blood drives.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8439 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing the commissioner of health to make grants to be used for the costs of conducting a local blood donation drive The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3100 of the public health law is amended to read as 2 follows: 3 § 3100. Human blood and its derivatives; collection, processing, stor- 4 age and distribution; general powers of commissioner. 1. The commis- 5 sioner is hereby authorized: 6 (a) to establish, equip, maintain and conduct a suitable program to 7 collect, process, store and distribute human blood, and the various 8 human blood derivatives including special therapeutic and diagnostic 9 serums, which are deemed of value in the treatment of sick and injured 10 persons, and the prevention of certain diseases; 11 (b) to carry out such educational and research activities as [he] such 12 commissioner may deem necessary in connection with said program; [and] 13 (c) to make grants, within amounts appropriated for this purpose, to 14 not-for-profit organizations and elementary, secondary and postsecondary 15 schools to be used to help pay for the costs of conducting a local blood 16 donation drive; and 17 (d) to establish necessary rules and regulations to effect the purpose 18 of this article. 19 2. The commissioner may conduct such program solely as a state activ- 20 ity, or in cooperation with such institutions, hospitals or municipal 21 corporations as [he] such commissioner may select, on such terms as may 22 be agreed upon. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01406-01-5