Text: HF02384 Text: HF02386 Text: HF02300 - HF02399 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 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. 2 12 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. 2 25 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
Text: HF02384 Text: HF02386 Text: HF02300 - HF02399 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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