Honor Our Living Donors Act
Official title: To amend the Public Health Service Act to eliminate consideration of the income of organ recipients in providing reimbursement of expenses to donating individuals, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Honor Our Living Donors Act
This bill modifies certain criteria used to determine eligibility under the Living Organ Donation Reimbursement Program, which reimburses organ donors for certain incidental expenses related to organ donation (e.g., travel expenses).
The bill specifies that the organ recipient's income may not be considered in determining whether an organ donor may be reimbursed under the program. (Currently, an organ recipient's income may not be greater than 350% of the federal poverty guidelines.) Additionally, under the bill, organ donors may be reimbursed regardless of whether the organ recipient pays them (or could be expected to pay them) for their expenses.
The Department of Health and Human Services must report on whether the program adequately covers the expenses of organ donors, and if not, the amount of necessary funding.
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- POET, LLC
- NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- POET, LLC
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- State, Dept of (DOS)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 628: Honor Our Living Donors Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-628/
"H.R. 628: Honor Our Living Donors Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-628/.
H.R. 628, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-628/.
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