2025 bills / H.B. 400
H.B. 400 Blood Transfusion Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
Health care facilities and providers would generally not be allowed to stop a patient from providing the patient's own blood, or blood from a chosen donor, for use in a possible transfusion during care, with some exceptions. Providers and facilities would also be protected from liability for injury, damages, or death connected to a transfusion of blood the patient supplied.
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Official description
- except in certain situations, disallows a health care facility or provider from prohibiting a patient from providing the patient's own blood product or the blood product of the patient's directed donor for any potential transfusion related to the patient's health care
- provides immunity from liability to health care providers and facilities for a patient's injury, damages, or death occurring in connection with a transfusion of blood product provided by the patient
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 400 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 400 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how