Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2007
Latest action · Sep 24, 2007 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedSep 24, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish a National Organ Tissue Donor Registry Resource Center, which shall: (1) advance the development, expansion, and evaluation of state organ and tissue donor registries; (2) facilitate timely access to, and the exchange of accurate donor information between, such registries 24 hours a day; (3) ensure that funded registries comply with requirements; (4) provide technical assistance to states for such registries; and (5) maintain a registry information clearinghouse.
Requires the Secretary to award grants or cooperative agreements to eligible entities for such registries. Requires recipients to agree to establish benchmarks for improvement in organ and tissue donation and to maintain registries that: (1) allow a donor to include a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; (2) allow organ procurement organizations to access that information, at or near the donor's death, 24 hours a day; and (3) bar the use or disclosure of personally identifiable information for any other purpose without the donor's consent.
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of establishing a living donor database to track short- and long-term health effects for donors associated with living organ donation.
Cosponsors 17
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 24, 2007 to Apr 14, 2008; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | Sep 24, 2007 |
| D-TX | Silvestre Reyes | Original | Sep 24, 2007 |
| R-MI | Dave Camp | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Jim Costa | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-MA | Stephen F. Lynch | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-MO | Ike Skelton | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| R-FL | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | Oct 24, 2007 | |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Nov 9, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Nov 9, 2007 | |
| D-LA | William J. Jefferson | Nov 9, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Nov 15, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Dec 6, 2007 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Feb 12, 2008 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Feb 12, 2008 | |
| D-PA | Joe Sestak | Feb 12, 2008 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Mar 12, 2008 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Apr 14, 2008 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Sep 24, 2007 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 24, 2007Introduced in House
- Sep 24, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 110-57 | UTILIZING PUBLIC POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY TO STRENGTHEN ORGAN DONOR PROGRAMS95 pages | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Sep 25, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a National Organ and Tissue Donor Registry Resource Center, to authorize grants for State organ and tissue donor registries, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Communication in medicine
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Directories
- Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Health information systems
- Medical records
- Right of privacy
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 24, 2007Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
