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IN HB1068

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

1/4/2017

Primary Sponsor

Ronald Bacon

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Origin

House of Representatives

2017 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires hospitals to ask patients or their health care representatives as soon as practicable following inpatient admission whether they want to be a human organ donor
  • The request must occur before any transfer to another facility
  • Hospitals must document the patient's decision (whether they elect or decline to be an organ donor) in the patient's medical record
  • Effective date: July 1, 2017
  • Amends Indiana Code section IC 16-21-2-17

Legislative Description

Hospital admissions and organ donor designation. Requires a hospital to: (1) ask a patient or the patient's health care representative as soon as practicable following the patient's admission to the hospital whether the patient wants to be a human organ donor; and (2) designate the choice in the patient's medical record.

Last Action

Representative Macer added as coauthor

1/12/2017

Committee Referrals

Public Health1/4/2017

Full Bill Text

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