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AL HB168
Bill
Status
1/14/2014
Primary Sponsor
Jack Williams
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AI Summary
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Authorizes persons 18 years of age or older to donate blood or plasma in compensatory blood donation programs or plasma donation programs without parental or guardian consent.
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Maintains existing law allowing persons 17 years of age or older to donate blood in voluntary and noncompensatory blood donation programs without parental or guardian permission.
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Retains provision allowing persons 16 years of age to donate blood in voluntary and noncompensatory programs with written parental or guardian permission.
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Repeals Section 26-1-3, Code of Alabama 1975, to remove nonconforming language.
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Takes effect on the first day of the third month following passage and gubernatorial approval.
Legislative Description
Blood donations, plasma donations, minors age 18 and older, participation in donation programs, Sec. 26-1-3.1 am'd; Sec. 26-1-3 repealed
Health
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health
1/14/2014