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Committee clarifies practitioner authority to notify patients when placental tissue is used in stem-cell treatments
Health and Human Services Committee · February 18, 2026
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Summary
SB 55 would correct last year’s omission by explicitly authorizing practitioners to notify patients when placental tissue is used in stem-cell treatments; Senator Vickers said it corrects an oversight, and the committee approved the bill unanimously.
Senator Vickers presented SB 55 as a technical fix to a bill enacted a few years earlier that authorized use of placental tissue for certain stem-cell treatments but did not expressly authorize the practitioner to give…
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