California Health and Safety Code 1603.2 – (a) Each blood bank or plasma center shall require as …
(a) Each blood bank or plasma center shall require as identification either a photographic driver’s license or other photographic identification that is issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles, pursuant to Division 6 (commencing with Section 12500) of the Vehicle Code, from all donors of human whole blood or blood components who receive payment in return for the donation of that blood or blood components.
(b) For the purposes of this section, “payment” means the transfer by a blood bank or plasma center to any person of money or any other valuable consideration that can be converted to money by the recipient, except that payment shall not include any of the following:
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1603.2
- Blood components: as used in this chapter , means preparations separated from single units of whole blood or prepared for hemapheresis and intended for use as final products for transfusions. See California Health and Safety Code 1603.1
- department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
- Donor: The person who makes a gift.
- Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
- Plasma center: as used in this chapter , means any place where the process of plasmapheresis is conducted, as defined in Section 1025 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations and includes a place where leukopheresis or platelet pheresis, or both, is conducted. See California Health and Safety Code 1603.1
(1) Cancellation or refund of the nonreplacement fees or related blood or blood components transfusion charges.
(2) Blood assurance benefits to a person as a result of a blood or blood components donation to a donor club or blood assurance program.
(3) Time away from employment granted by an employer to an employee in order to donate blood or blood components.
(Amended by Stats. 2003, Ch. 419, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2004.)