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.