ANATOMICAL GIFTS; INQUIRY S.B. 1025:
SUMMARY OF INTRODUCED BILL
IN COMMITTEE
Senate Bill 1025 (as introduced 5-3-22)
Sponsor: Senator Wayne Schmidt
Committee: Health Policy and Human Services
CONTENT
The bill would amend the Public Health Code to allow a physician's private office or an urgent care center to ask each new patient whether the patient was interested in information regarding the organ and tissue donor registry or donating bone marrow.
Specifically, the bill would allow a physician's private practice office or an urgent care center to do both of the following:
-- Inquire of each new patient who was at least 18 years old and less than 45 years old, either verbally or on a written or electronic form, whether the patient was interested in information on donating bone marrow and, on the patient's request, provide the patient with information on becoming a bone marrow donor; if information were provided, it would have to include contact information for bone marrow donation programs in the State.
-- Inquire of each new patient, either verbally or on a written or electronic form, whether the patient was interested in information on the organ and tissue donor registry and, on the patient's request, provide the patient with educational materials explaining the right to make an anatomical gift under Part 101 (Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Law), information describing the organ and tissue donor registry, and information on how to have the patient's name placed in the organ and tissue donor registry; if information were provided, it would have to include contact information for the State's federally designated organ procurement organization or its successor organization as described in Section 10120.
(Section 10120 allows an organ procurement organization to establish or contract for the establishment of a donor registry that meets certain requirements, including that it be accessible to a procurement organization and provide electronic access at no cost to the procurement organization.)
"Anatomical gift" means that term as defined in Section 10102: a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. "Organ and tissue donor registry" means the donor registry as that term as defined in Section 10102: a database that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical gifts as provided for in Section 10120.
The materials and information described in the bill could be provided to the patient orally or in written or electronic form.
Proposed MCL 333.10401 Legislative Analyst: Stephen P. Jackson