Report Title:

Organ Donor Registry

Description:

Establishes a statewide organ donor registry.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2104
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
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.  (a)  The director of health shall contract for the establishment of a statewide organ donor registry.  The contract shall provide for 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 transportation, county motor vehicle agencies, attorneys, organ donation awareness programs, and others.

     (b)  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.

INTRODUCED BY:

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