Plasma Donation Awareness Act of 2021

Plasma Donation Awareness Act of 2021

This bill includes plasma donation within the scope of a public awareness campaign by the Department of Health and Human Services concerning the importance of the blood supply and the need for blood donations during the COVID-19 emergency.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3468 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3468

  To amend the CARES Act to expand a national awareness and outreach 
 campaign to address the importance and safety of plasma donation, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2021

  Mr. Peters (for himself and Mr. Wenstrup) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the CARES Act to expand a national awareness and outreach 
 campaign to address the importance and safety of plasma donation, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Plasma Donation Awareness Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. IMPORTANCE OF THE BLOOD AND PLASMA SUPPLY.

    (a) In General.--Section 3226 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136) 
is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by inserting ``and plasma'' 
        after ``blood''; and
            (2) by inserting after ``blood'' each time it appears ``and 
        plasma''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The item relating to section 3226 in the 
table of contents in section 2 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136) is 
amended to read as follows:

``Sec. 3226. Importance of the blood and plasma supply.''.
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