Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2007

To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a National Organ and Tissue Donor Registry Resource Center, to authorize grants for State organ and tissue donor registries, and for other purposes.

9/24/2007--Introduced.
Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish a National Organ Tissue Donor Registry Resource Center, which shall:
(1) advance the development, expansion, and evaluation of state organ and tissue donor registries;
(2) facilitate timely access to, and the exchange of accurate donor information between, such registries 24 hours a day;
(3) ensure that funded registries comply with requirements;
(4) provide technical assistance to states for such registries; and
(5) maintain a registry information clearinghouse.
Requires the Secretary to award grants or cooperative agreements to eligible entities for such registries. Requires recipients to agree to establish benchmarks for improvement in organ and tissue donation and to maintain registries that:
(1) allow a donor to include a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift;
(2) allow organ procurement organizations to access that information, at or near the donor's death, 24 hours a day; and
(3) bar the use or disclosure of personally identifiable information for any other purpose without the donor's consent.
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of establishing a living donor database to track short- and long-term health effects for donors associated with living organ donation.


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Sponsor

• Rep. William Clay [D, MO-1]
• and 17 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Robert Brady [D, PA-1]
  • Rep. David Camp [R, MI-4]
  • Rep. Donna Christensen [D, VI-0]
  • Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D, MO-5]
  • Rep. Steve Cohen [D, TN-9]
  • Rep. Jim Costa [D, CA-20]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. Alcee Hastings [D, FL-23]
  • Rep. William Jefferson [D, LA-2]
  • Rep. Stephen Lynch [D, MA-9]
  • Rep. James McGovern [D, MA-3]
  • Rep. Silvestre Reyes [D, TX-16]
  • Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R, FL-18]
  • Rep. Bobby Rush [D, IL-1]
  • Rep. Joe Sestak [D, PA-7]
  • Rep. Ike Skelton [D, MO-4]
  • Rep. Edolphus Towns [D, NY-10]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.3635

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September 24, 2007

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• Sep 24, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• Introduced on Sep 24, 2007.

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October 02, 2007 When Everson Walls donated one of his kidneys to Ron Springs ...

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