1-1 By: Rosson S.B. No. 545
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 14, 1995; February 15, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
1-4 Services; April 20, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 20, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the consent of a person 16 years of age or older to
1-9 donate blood or blood components.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 162.015, Health and Safety Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 162.015. DONATION OF BLOOD BY MINORS <PERSONS YOUNGER
1-14 THAN 18 YEARS OF AGE>. A person who is 16 <17> years of age or
1-15 older may consent to the donation of the person's blood or blood
1-16 components. A person younger than 18 years of age may not receive
1-17 any compensation from a blood bank for a donation of the person's
1-18 blood or blood components.
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-25 passage, and it is so enacted.
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