Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2015
Latest action · May 22, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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.
- IntroducedMay 20, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2015
This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Health Resources and Services Administration to establish a National Organ and Tissue Donor Registry Resource Center.
The Center must: (1) advance the development, expansion, and evaluation of state organ donor registries; (2) facilitate timely exchange of donor information between state registries; and (3) maintain a clearinghouse for information on registry best practices.
The Department of Health and Human Services must award grants to states in order to develop, expand, or maintain state organ donor registries and establish benchmarks for improvement in organ donation. A state registry that receives a grant must be accessible to individual donors and the Center.
A person taking an individual's organs is not civilly liable as long as the person verified the individual's consent with a state organ donor registry.
The Government Accountability Office must study the feasibility of establishing a database to track the health effects of living organ donation.Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on May 20, 2015.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MO | Sam Graves | Original | May 20, 2015 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 22, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- May 20, 2015Introduced in House
- May 20, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Civil actions and liability
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Health
- Health information and medical records
- Health programs administration and funding
- Organ and tissue donation and transplantation
- Right of privacy
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 20, 2015Introduced in House
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