HR 3514 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2011

Fact sheet

Latest action · Dec 2, 2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedNov 29, 2011
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish a National Organ and 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; (3) ensure that registries funded through this Act comply with applicable requirements; (4) provide technical assistance to states for such registries; and (5) maintain a registry information clearinghouse to collect, synthesize, and disseminate best practices information.

Requires the Secretary to award grants or cooperative agreements to states for the development, enhancement, expansion, and evaluation of organ and tissue donor registries. Sets forth requirements for registries, including that such registries: (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; and (3) bar the use or disclosure of personally identifiable information for any other purpose without the donor's consent.

Prohibits any person from being held civilly liable for having harvested or taken an individual's organs or tissues without obtaining valid consent if: (1) such person verified that the individual was registered as a donor with a state organ and tissue donor registry, and (2) the harvesting or taking was within the scope of the consent given for purposes of such registration.

Directs the Comptroller General to report on the feasibility of establishing a living donor database to track health effects for donors associated with living organ donation.

Cosponsors 2

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Nov 29, 2011.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-GUMadeleine Z. BordalloOriginalNov 29, 2011
D-AZRaúl M. GrijalvaOriginalNov 29, 2011

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Dec 2, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
  2. Nov 29, 2011Introduced in House
  3. Nov 29, 2011Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

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  1. Nov 29, 2011Introduced in House

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