SB 23: Public health: umbilical cord blood collection.

Existing law requests the University of California to establish and administer the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program, until January 1, 2018, for the purpose of collecting units of umbilical cord blood for public use, as defined, in transplantation and providing nonclinical units for specified research.

This bill would extend the provisions of the program until January 1, 2025.

Until January 1, 2018, existing law requires an applicant to pay an $18 fee for a certified copy of a birth certificate, except as specified. Existing law requires $2 of the $18 fee to be paid to the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program Fund. Moneys in the fund are available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program.

This bill would, until January 1, 2025, instead require the collection of a $19 fee for a certified copy of a birth certificate. The bill would also, until January 1, 2025, require $3 of that $19 fee to be paid to the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program Fund. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.