S.B. No. 1144
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the consent of a person 17 years of age to donate blood
    1-2  or blood components.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 162, Health and Safety Code, is amended
    1-5  by adding Section 162.015 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 162.015.  DONATION OF BLOOD BY PERSONS YOUNGER THAN 18
    1-7  YEARS OF AGE.  A person who is 17 years of age may consent to the
    1-8  donation of the person's blood or blood components.  A person
    1-9  younger than 18 years of age may not receive any compensation from
   1-10  a blood bank for a donation of the person's blood or blood
   1-11  components.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The heading to Chapter 162, Health and Safety
   1-13  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-14            CHAPTER 162.  BLOOD BANKS AND DONATION OF BLOOD
   1-15        SECTION 3.  Subsection (a), Section 35.03, Family Code, is
   1-16  amended to read as follows:
   1-17        (a)  A minor may consent to the furnishing of hospital,
   1-18  medical, surgical, and dental care by a licensed physician or
   1-19  dentist if the minor:
   1-20              (1)  is on active duty with the armed services of the
   1-21  United States of America;
   1-22              (2)  is 16 years of age or older and resides separate
   1-23  and apart from his parents, managing conservator, or guardian,
    2-1  whether with or without the consent of the parents, managing
    2-2  conservator, or guardian and regardless of the duration of such
    2-3  residence, and is managing his own financial affairs, regardless of
    2-4  the source of the income;
    2-5              (3)  consents to the diagnosis and treatment of any
    2-6  infectious, contagious or communicable disease which is required by
    2-7  law or regulation adopted pursuant to law to be reported by the
    2-8  licensed physician or dentist to a local health officer or the
    2-9  Texas Department of Health and including all sexually transmitted
   2-10  diseases;
   2-11              (4)  is unmarried and pregnant, and consents to
   2-12  hospital, medical, or surgical treatment, other than abortion,
   2-13  related to her pregnancy; or
   2-14              (5)  <is 18 years of age or older and consents to the
   2-15  donation of his blood and the penetration of tissue necessary to
   2-16  accomplish the donation; or>
   2-17              <(6)>  consents to examination and treatment for
   2-18  chemical addiction, chemical dependency, or any other condition
   2-19  directly related to chemical use.
   2-20        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-21        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-25  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.