By Rosson                                              S.B. No. 545
       74R1845 KLL-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the consent of a person 16 years of age or older to
    1-3  donate blood or blood components.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 162.015, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 162.015.  DONATION OF BLOOD BY MINORS <PERSONS YOUNGER
    1-8  THAN 18 YEARS OF AGE>.  A person who is 16 <17> years of age or
    1-9  older may consent to the donation of the person's blood or blood
   1-10  components.  A person younger than 18 years of age may not receive
   1-11  any compensation from a blood bank for a donation of the person's
   1-12  blood or blood components.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.