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107TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 953

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to carry out

programs to improve recovery rates for organs in eligible hospitals.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MARCH 8, 2001

Mr. INSLEE (for himself, Mr. SPENCE, and Mr. CANTOR) introduced the

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants

to carry out programs to improve recovery rates for

organs in eligible hospitals.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Organ Coordination

5 Improvement Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM OF GRANTS RE2 GARDING HOSPITAL ORGAN DONATION CO3 ORDINATORS.

4 Part H of title III of the Public Health Service Act

5 (42 U.S.C. 273 et seq.) is amended by inserting after sec6 tion 374 the following section:

7 ‘‘SEC. 374A. GRANTS REGARDING HOSPITAL ORGAN DONA8 TION COORDINATORS.

9 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—

10 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may make

11 grants to qualifying organ donation entities for the

12 purpose of assisting such entities in carrying out

13 programs to coordinate the activities of eligible hos14 pitals that relate to seeking organ donations, includ15 ing coordination with qualified organ procurement

16 organizations under section 371, in order to make

17 progress toward the goal of increasing the rate of

18 organ donation for the eligible hospitals with respect

19 to which such grants are made.

20 ‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE HOSPITAL.—For purposes of

21 this section, an eligible hospital is a public or non22 profit private hospital that performs significant trau23 ma care, or a public or nonprofit private hospital or

24 consortium of such hospitals that serves a popu25 lation base of not fewer than 200,000 individuals.
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1 ‘‘(3) QUALIFYING ORGAN DONATION ENTITY.—

2 For purposes of this section, a qualifying organ do3 nation entity is—

4 ‘‘(A) an eligible hospital; or

5 ‘‘(B) a qualified organ procurement orga6 nization under section 371.

7 ‘‘(b) PREFERENCE IN MAKING GRANTS.—In making

8 grants under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give pref9 erence to an applicant if the Secretary determines that

10 the probable result of such a grant would be a significant

11 increase in the rate of organ donation for the eligible hos12 pital involved.

13 ‘‘(c) ADMINISTRATION OF COORDINATION PRO14 GRAM.—A condition for the receipt of a grant under sub15 section (a) is that the applicant involved agree that the

16 program under such subsection will be carried out

17 jointly—

18 ‘‘(1) by representatives from the eligible hos19 pital and the qualified organ procurement organiza20 tion with respect to which the grant is made; and

21 ‘‘(2) by such other entities as the representa22 tives referred to in paragraph (1) may designate.

23 ‘‘(d) EVALUATIONS; REPORT TO CONGRESS.—

24 ‘‘(1) EVALUATIONS.—The Secretary shall, di25 rectly or through contracts with public or private en-
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1 tities, provide for annual evaluations of programs

2 carried out pursuant to subsection (a) in order to

3 determine the extent to which the programs have in4 creased the rate of organ donation for the eligible

5 hospitals involved.

6 ‘‘(2) REPORT.—Not later than one year after

7 the date on which amounts are first appropriated

8 pursuant to subsection (e), and annually thereafter,

9 the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate com10 mittees of the Congress a report that summarizes

11 evaluations under paragraph (1).

12 ‘‘(e) FUNDING.—

13 ‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

14 For the purpose of carrying out this section, there

15 are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may

16 be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2002

17 through 2006.

18 ‘‘(2) ALLOCATION.—Of the amounts appro19 priated under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year, the

20 Secretary shall reserve 50 percent for grants under

21 subsection (a) to qualifying organ donation entities

22 described in paragraph (3)(A) of such subsection

23 and 50 percent for grants under subsection (a) to
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1 qualifying organ donation entities described in para2 graph (3)(B) of such subsection.’’.

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