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1 1 HOUSE FILE 2385
1 2
1 3 AN ACT
1 4 PROVIDING FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATEWIDE ORGAN AND TISSUE
1 5 DONOR REGISTRY.
1 6
1 7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 8
1 9 Section 1. Section 142C.15, subsection 4, paragraph a,
1 10 Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
1 11 a. Not more than twenty percent of the moneys in the fund
1 12 annually may be expended in the form of grants to state
1 13 agencies or to nonprofit legal entities with an interest in
1 14 anatomical gift public awareness and transplantation to
1 15 conduct public awareness projects or to research and develop a
1 16 statewide organ and tissue donor registry. Grants shall be
1 17 made based upon the submission of a grant application by an
1 18 agency or entity to conduct a public awareness project or to
1 19 research and develop a statewide organ and tissue donor
1 20 registry.
1 21 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 142C.18 STATEWIDE ORGAN AND TISSUE
1 22 DONOR REGISTRY.
1 23 The director of public health may contract for the
1 24 establishment of a statewide organ and tissue donor registry.
1 25 The contract shall provide for a centralized database and
1 26 automated system to make organ and tissue donor information
1 27 available to family members and physicians seven days a week,
1 28 twenty-four hours per day. The registry shall be used to
1 29 compile the organ and tissue donation information received by
1 30 the state department of transportation, county treasurers,
1 31 attorneys, organ donation awareness programs, and others.
1 32 The director of public health shall work with the state
1 33 department of transportation, county treasurers, and the Iowa
1 34 organ donor network in developing specifications for the
1 35 registry. Consideration shall be given to implementing an
2 1 automated toll-free hotline and providing internet access to
2 2 the registry.
2 3 Sec. 3. STATEWIDE ORGAN AND TISSUE DONOR REGISTRY – STUDY
2 4 – IMPLEMENTATION. If sufficient funding is available from
2 5 state appropriations, federal funding, or private sources, the
2 6 Iowa department of public health shall conduct a feasibility
2 7 study for implementation of a statewide organ and tissue donor
2 8 registry as described in this Act. Implementation of the
2 9 registry is contingent upon the department securing sufficient
2 10 funding to support initial start-up and ongoing administrative
2 11 costs associated with the operation of the registry.
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2 13
2 14
2 15 BRENT SIEGRIST
2 16 Speaker of the House
2 17
2 18
2 19
2 20 MARY E. KRAMER
2 21 President of the Senate
2 22
2 23 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
2 24 is known as House File 2385, Seventy-eighth General Assembly.
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2 26
2 27
2 28 ELIZABETH ISAACSON
2 29 Chief Clerk of the House
2 30 Approved , 2000
2 31
2 32
2 33
2 34 THOMAS J. VILSACK
2 35 Governor
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