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IN HB1229
Bill
Status
1/13/2015
Primary Sponsor
Ronald Bacon
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AI Summary
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Requires individuals who harvest human bone, skin, tissue, heart valves, ligaments, or tendons to register with the medical licensing board, effective October 1, 2015.
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Prohibits hospitals and procurement organizations from contacting a person who has objected to making an anatomical gift in order to request their consent at a later time.
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Requires hospitals and procurement organizations to provide written information about procedures that will take place on the decedent's body before obtaining consent for an anatomical gift.
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Permits hospitals and procurement organizations to contact persons in prior classes under the anatomical gift priority list after receiving an objection from a lower-priority class member.
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Effective July 1, 2015.
Legislative Description
Anatomical gifts. Requires an individual who harvests human bone, skin, tissue, heart valves, ligaments, or tendons to register with the medical licensing board. Provides that if a person authorized to make an anatomical gift objects to the making of an anatomical gift, neither the hospital nor the procurement organization may contact the person at a later time to ask the person to allow the anatomical gift. Requires that before obtaining consent for an anatomical gift of a decedent, the hospital or procurement organization shall provide the person authorized to make an anatomical gift with written information concerning the procedures that
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
1/13/2015