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Under current law, hospitals and other health care facilities can generally set their own policies about whether patients may use their own pre-donated blood or blood from a "directed donor" (a specific person the patient has chosen) during a transfusion. If passed, this bill would require health care providers and facilities to allow patients to use their own blood product or that of a directed donor, as long as it was collected through a federally compliant blood establishment, unless doing so would harm the donor or patient, there isn't enough time to arrange it before a procedure, the situation is a medical emergency, or the facility already offers a process for this option. The bill would also protect providers and facilities from legal liability for injury, damages, or death resulting from the use of such patient-provided blood, except in cases of gross negligence in handling the blood or performing the transfusion.