FORTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2009

March 17, 2009

Mr. Speaker:

    Your JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

SENATE BILL 569, as amended

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

     1. Strike Senate Judiciary Committee Amendments 1 and 2.

     2. On page 5, between lines 8 and 9, insert the following subsection:

          "E. A health-care provider or a health-care institution shall not be liable for reasonably relying on statements made by an unemancipated minor that the minor is eligible to give consent pursuant to Subsection A of this section.".

     3. Reletter the succeeding subsection accordingly.

                             Respectfully submitted,

Al Park, Chairman

Adopted     Not Adopted

           (Chief Clerk)                            (Chief Clerk)

Date

The roll call vote was 9 For 3 Against

Yes:      9

No:       Cervantes, Cook, Park

Excused:  Rehm, Stewart

Absent:   None

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