Title: Anatomical Gifts

Summary: Requiring an applicant for a driver license, driver license renewal, or identification card to provide a statement of whether he or she agrees to have his or her name included in the donor registry; specifying the options that may be selected by an applicant in his or her statement, etc.

Full Text:
An act relating to anatomical gifts; amending s. 765.521, F.S.; requiring an applicant for a driver license, driver license renewal, or identification card to provide a statement of whether he or she agrees to have his or her name included in the donor registry; specifying the options that may be selected by an applicant in his or her statement; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Present subsections (2) and (3) of section 765.521, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (3) and (4), respectively, and a new subsection (2) is added to that section, to read: 765.521 Donations as part of driver license or identification card process.  (2) An applicant for a driver license under s. 322.08, a driver license renewal under s. 322.18, or an identification card under s. 322.051 shall provide a statement in writing, or by other means approved by the department, of whether he or she agrees to have his or her name included in the donor registry by responding to one of the following three options provided by the department:  Yes,   No,  or  Defer to family wishes.  A person who chooses: (a) Yes  has agreed to have his or her name included in the donor registry and has entered into a legally binding commitment to donate his or her organs or tissue upon his or her death. (b) No  has not agreed to have his or her name included in the donor registry. (c) Defer to family wishes  has agreed to allow a person listed in s. 765.512(3) to donate all or any part of the decedent s body for any purpose specified in s. 765.513. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.