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Deletes everything. Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that all licensed hospitals shall offer a pregnant patient the ability to donate, to a publicly accessible certified cord blood bank, blood extracted from the umbilical cord following the delivery of a newborn child if this can be done at no expense to the patient or hospital for collection or storage. Provides that nothing in the new provisions: obligates a hospital to collect umbilical cord blood if, in the professional judgment of a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches or a nurse, the collection would threaten the health of the mother or child; or requires any hospital employee, physician, nurse, or hospital that is directly affiliated with a bona fide religious denomination that includes as an integral part of its beliefs and practices the tenet that blood transfer is contrary to the moral principles the denomination considers to be an essential part of its beliefs.
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