AN ACT TO INCREASE BLOOD DONATIONS FROM HIGH SCHOOLS

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Sponsored by Ryan Gardocki, Grayson Ognibene, Timothy Gardocki of Brentwood High School

This legislation was filed in the Health category

Presented as part of the YIG Volunteer 2024 conference

1	BE IT ENACTED BY THE TENNESSEE YMCA YOUTH IN GOVERNMENT
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3	Section 1: Terms in this act will be defined as follows:
4	a. Blood donation - the act of a person voluntarily giving a pint of blood for medical use.
5	b. Blood donation center - establishments that receive blood from donors and transport them to
6	hospitals. There are six primary providers, The American Red Cross, Vitalant, Blood Assurance,
7	LIFELINE Blood Services, Marsh Regional Blood Center, and MEDIC Regional Blood Center.
8	c. Blood drive - an organized event where people can give some of their blood for medical use.
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10	Section 2: High Schools with more than 500 students will be mandated to have 3 blood drives a
11	year.
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13	Section 3: Virtual high schools and homeschooling programs are excluded from this act.
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15	Section 4: The first blood drive will occur during the first quarter of the school year, the second
16	blood drive will occur in December, and the last blood drive will occur during the second semester.
17	Each blood drive must be more than 8 weeks apart.
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19	Section 5: The blood drives will be conducted by the nearest blood donation center to each high
20	school.
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22	Section 6: A school can be exempt from a blood drive if there is no blood donation center close
23	enough and with enough resources to perform the blood drive. This will be determined by the
24	Tennessee Board of Education.
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26	Section 7: The implementation of these blood drives will need no government funding.
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28	Section 8: All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this are hereby repealed.
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30	Section 9: This act shall take effect August 1, 2024, the public welfare requiring it.
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