Bill Text: OH HB67 | 2009-2010 | 128th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: To permit persons who are sixteen to donate blood with parental consent.
Spectrum: Unknown
Status: (Passed) 2009-10-06 - Effective Date [HB67 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2009-HB67-Enrolled.html
To amend section 2108.31 of the Revised Code to permit persons who are sixteen to donate blood with parental consent.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:
SECTION 1. That section 2108.31 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2108.31. Any person seventeen years of age or
older
may, without consent of the person's parent or guardian, donate
blood in
a voluntary blood program, which that is not
operated
for profit, without consent
of the person's parent or
guardian.
Before Any person sixteen years of age but less than seventeen
years of age may, with consent of the person's parent or guardian,
donate blood in a voluntary blood program that is not operated for
profit.
Before obtaining blood donations from students at high schools, joint vocational schools, or technical schools, a blood program shall arrange for the dissemination of written donation information to students to be shared with their parents or guardians. This information shall include a statement that the students will be requested to donate blood.
SECTION 2. That existing section 2108.31 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.