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Amended
IN
Senate
April 14, 2016 |
Senate Bill | No. 1316 |
Introduced by Senator Wolk (Coauthor: Senator Pavley) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Cristina Garcia) |
February 19, 2016 |
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
(a)“Donor” means an individual, living or deceased, from whom tissue is removed.
(b)“Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate trust, partnership, association, state or local government, or subdivision or agency thereof, or any other legal entity.
(c)“Tissue” means a human cell, group of cells, including the cornea, sclera, or vitreous humor and other segments of, or the whole eye, bones, skin, arteries, sperm, blood, other fluids, and any other portion of a human body.
(d)“Tissue bank” means a place, establishment, or institution that
collects, processes, stores, or distributes tissue for transplantation into human beings.
(e)“Transplantation” means the act or process of transferring tissue, including by ingestion, from a donor to the body of the donor or another human being.
(f)“Department” means the State Department of Public Health.
(g)“Human milk tissue bank” means a tissue bank that provides a participating mother with financial compensation for procuring human milk for the purpose of human consumption.
(h)“Participating mother” means a woman who provides her human milk to a human milk tissue bank in exchange for financial compensation.
SEC. 2.SECTION 1.
Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 1642) is added to Chapter 4.1 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:
Article
2.5. Human Milk Tissue Banks
1642.
A1642.2.
(a) A(b)Use the term “donor” to describe a participating mother.
(c)Use