Report Title:

Organ Donor Registry

Description:

Establishes a statewide organ donor registry.  (SD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2366
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO THE ORGAN DONOR REGISTRY.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new part to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"Part      .  Organ donor registry

§321-   Organ donor registry; established; department responsibility.  (a)  There is established the statewide organ donor registry within the department of health that shall serve as a centralized database and automated system to make organ donor information available to family members and physicians seven days a week, twenty-four hours per day.  The registry shall be used to compile the organ donation information received by the department of health, the department of transportation, the county motor vehicle agencies, attorneys, organ donation awareness programs, and others.

     (b)  The director of health may contract for the establishment of the statewide organ donor registry.

     (c)  The director of health shall work with the department of transportation, county motor vehicle agencies, the Organ Donor Center of Hawaii, and any other interested parties in developing specifications for the registry.  In developing these specifications, consideration shall be given to implementing an automated toll-free hotline."

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009 for establishment of a statewide organ donor registry.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2008.