68-32-105 - Providing information to pregnant women about the options for donating blood extracted from newborn's umbilical cord. - Tennessee Statutes

68-32-105. Providing information to pregnant women about the options for donating blood extracted from newborn's umbilical cord.

(a)  “Hospital” has the meaning given in § 68-11-201.

(b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of § 68-32-101, the principal prenatal health care provider of a woman who is known to be pregnant is strongly encouraged, before the woman's thirty-fifth week of pregnancy, to offer her information on options to donate, to an accepting and accredited cord blood bank, blood bank, blood center, or plasma center, blood extracted from the umbilical cord of her newborn child, if the donation may be made without monetary expense for the collection or storage to the woman, to any third party payor of health care coverage for the woman, or to the hospital in which delivery occurs.

[Acts 2006, ch. 585, § 1.]