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By: Hall, Paxton |
S.B. No. 125 |
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(In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2024; February 3, 2025, |
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read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human |
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Services; March 24, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable |
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Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 2; |
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March 24, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 125 |
By: Perry |
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to autologous and direct blood donations. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Chapter 162, Health and Safety Code, is amended |
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by adding Section 162.021 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 162.021. AUTOLOGOUS OR DIRECT BLOOD DONATION. A blood |
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bank that facilitates autologous or direct blood donations shall |
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comply with a physician's order prescribing for an individual an |
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autologous or direct blood donation. |
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SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 241, Health and Safety |
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Code, is amended by adding Section 241.013 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 241.013. AUTOLOGOUS AND DIRECT BLOOD DONATIONS. A |
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hospital licensed under this chapter that facilitates blood |
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donations shall allow an individual on whom a medical procedure is |
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to be performed to provide an autologous or direct blood donation a |
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physician orders for the procedure. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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