2007 House Bill 4940 ↩

Senate Roll Call 110: Passed

To update the 1968 state law on organ donations so as to streamline the process of making an anatomical gift. The bill would provide a definition of a donor registry; revise procedures for how organ donors can indicate their designation as such; make it a felony to intentionally falsify, forge, obliterate, or conceal a document of gift (donor card) for financial gain; revise procedures for determining who gets organs; require the Secretary of State to maintain an electronic donor registry and allow others to do so also. Under current law anatomical gifts must be executed with testamentary formalities, including the creation of a written instrument with a witness. The bill would reduce or eliminate some of these formalities in most cases, making it easier for a person to indicate willingness to be an organ donor.