Tex. Health & Safety Code § 162.002 · Chapter 162. BLOOD BANKS AND DONATION OF BLOOD
REQUIRED TESTING OF BLOOD.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) For each donation of blood, a blood bank shall require the donor to submit to tests for communicable diseases, including tests for AIDS, HIV, or hepatitis, and serological tests for contagious venereal diseases.
(b) A blood bank is not required to obtain the donor's informed consent before administering tests for infectious diseases and is not required to provide counseling concerning the test results.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0487, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.162.htm
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- sha256 17ab06f04663bd7bb2de5f9c8fad478de46d173e91d7db58933c9aeda854b279
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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