HB0135

Authorizes hospitals and blood banks to facilitate autologous and direct blood donations ordered by healthcare providers, with provisions for reasonable fees.

• Defines autologous blood donation as a person donating their own blood for personal use during a future medical procedure, and direct blood donation as a person donating blood specifically for another person's future medical procedure. (W.S. 35-34-101(a))
• Requires hospitals and other licensed health care facilities that perform blood donations to allow patients scheduled for medical procedures to donate autologous or direct blood before the procedure upon healthcare provider order. (W.S. 35-34-101(b))
• Requires blood banks to comply with healthcare provider orders for autologous or direct blood donations, except when the donor is in ill health, has a heart condition making donation inadvisable, weighs too little to donate, or cannot donate for other medical reasons. (W.S. 35-34-101(c))
• Permits blood banks to charge their regular fee to facilitate autologous or direct blood donations ordered by a healthcare provider, and to charge a storage fee for preserving the donated blood until use. (W.S. 35-34-101(d))
• Directs the department of health to promulgate rules necessary to implement the act. (Section 2)

Effective: July 1, 2025

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