By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1144
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the consent of a person seventeen years of age to
    1-2  donate blood or blood components.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  The Health and Safety Code, Title 2, Subtitle H,
    1-5  Chapter 162, is amended to add a new Section 162.013 and to
    1-6  renumber the remaining sections accordingly.  New Section 162.013
    1-7  reads as follows:
    1-8        162.013.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a
    1-9  person who is at least 17 years of age may consent to the donation
   1-10  of his blood or blood components.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.