MO HB561

Repeal and replace section 194.255, RSMo, to establish comprehensive rules governing anatomical gifts and their disposition.

Allow anatomical gifts to be made to hospitals, medical schools, organ procurement organizations, designated individuals, or eye and tissue banks for research, education, or transplantation.

If a gift to a designated individual cannot be transplanted, the part passes according to default rules unless the donor specified otherwise.

Direct gifts without a named recipient to appropriate banks or procurement organizations based on the type of tissue and stated purpose (transplantation/therapy prioritized over research/education).

Allow medically unsuitable gifts to be used for research or education and passed to appropriate procurement organizations, and prohibit acceptance of gifts from executed prisoners in other countries.