Report Title:

Organ Donor Registry

 

Description:

Establishes a statewide organ donor registry. Provides funding as a grant.  (SB2104 HD1)

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2104

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

 

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 individuals who register for online system access.  Information in the registry shall be an open record where family members and physicians may learn of a person's wishes regarding organ donation seven days a week, twenty-four hours per day.  The registry shall be established to allow individuals to register as organ donors through the online system as an option in the future.  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 as a grant pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the Hawaii Organ Procurement Organization for the establishment of a statewide organ donor registry; provided that the funds provided by this Act shall not be released if funding for the establishment of the statewide organ donor registry are received from federal sources, other private sources, or a combination thereof.

     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.