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.