Florida Senate - 2021                              CS for SB 240
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Health Policy; and Senator Book
       
       
       
       
       
       588-02670-21                                           2021240c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to donor human milk bank services;
    3         creating s. 383.017, F.S.; providing legislative
    4         intent; defining the term “donor human milk bank”;
    5         requiring the Department of Health to establish
    6         certain standards for the regulation of donor human
    7         milk banks; requiring donor human milk banks to comply
    8         with certain standards; requiring the department to
    9         adopt rules; providing an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Section 383.017, Florida Statutes, is created to
   14  read:
   15         383.017 Donor human milk banks.—
   16         (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to protect the
   17  health, safety, and welfare of human milk donors and recipients
   18  of human milk donation and to encourage the use of donor human
   19  milk and donor human milk derivatives.
   20         (2) As used in this section, the term “donor human milk
   21  bank” means any entity or organization operating within this
   22  state which collects, processes, stores, tests, or distributes
   23  donor human milk or donor human milk derivatives.
   24         (3) The Department of Health shall establish minimum
   25  standards for the regulation of donor human milk banks which
   26  must address the following:
   27         (a) The operation of a donor human milk bank that
   28  facilitates the donation, processing, and distribution of donor
   29  human milk and donor human milk derivatives;
   30         (b) Procedures for donation and distribution of donor human
   31  milk and donor human milk derivatives; and
   32         (c) Testing of donor human milk and donor human milk
   33  derivatives before donation, processing, and distribution to
   34  ensure the absence of adulterants and other contaminants as
   35  determined by the department.
   36         (4) A donor human milk bank operating in this state shall
   37  comply with the standards established by the department pursuant
   38  to this section.
   39         (5) The department shall adopt rules to implement this
   40  section.
   41         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.