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HR 2472 114th Congress House

Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2015

Official title: 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.

Introduced: May 20, 2015 See on congress.gov
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May 22, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
May 20, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
May 20, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Latest action May 22, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2015

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Health Resources and Services Administration to establish a National Organ and Tissue Donor Registry Resource Center.

The Center must: (1) advance the development, expansion, and evaluation of state organ donor registries; (2) facilitate timely exchange of donor information between state registries; and (3) maintain a clearinghouse for information on registry best practices.

The Department of Health and Human Services must award grants to states in order to develop, expand, or maintain state organ donor registries and establish benchmarks for improvement in organ donation. A state registry that receives a grant must be accessible to individual donors and the Center.

A person taking an individual's organs is not civilly liable as long as the person verified the individual's consent with a state organ donor registry.

The Government Accountability Office must study the feasibility of establishing a database to track the health effects of living organ donation.
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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
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Graves, Sam
Missouri · May 20, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2472: Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-2472/
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"H.R. 2472: Everson Walls and Ron Springs Gift for Life Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-2472/.
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