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(128th General Assembly)
(House Bill Number 67)
AN ACT
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is hereby repealed.
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