Gives you the right to donate your own blood for surgery, but you'll still pay reasonable fees to blood banks. This option might feel too expensive if you're already struggling with medical bills.
$30,000-$60,000
You can now choose to use your own blood for surgery, which may feel safer. You'll pay fees to cover the blood bank's costs, but this gives you more control over your medical care.
$60,000-$100,000
This law gives you more medical choices without breaking your budget. You can donate your own blood before surgery and pay reasonable fees to make it happen.
Over $100,000
You gain a new medical option that fits easily in your budget. The fees for using your own blood won't impact your finances much.
What you can do right now
Your voice carries more weight when it comes from the people a policy affects.
A.J. LouderbackTexas State Representative, District 30
Texas Senate Bill 56 requires blood banks and hospitals to allow patients to donate their own blood before surgery when a doctor requests it. This type of donation is called autologous or direct blood donation. Blood banks can charge a reasonable fee to cover their costs of helping with these donations.
