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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6020 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 17 (legislative day, DECEMBER 16), 2024 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions 

AN ACT 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to eliminate consideration of the income of organ recipients in providing 

reimbursement of expenses to donating individuals, and 

for other purposes. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Honor Our Living Do3 nors Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. NO CONSIDERATION OF INCOME OF ORGAN RECIPI5 ENT. 

6 Section 377 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

7 U.S.C. 274f) is amended— 

8 (1) by redesignating subsections (c) through (f) 

9 as subsections (d) through (g), respectively; 

10 (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol11 lowing: 

12 ‘‘(c) NO CONSIDERATION OF INCOME OF ORGAN RE13 CIPIENT.—The recipient of a grant under this section, in 

14 providing reimbursement to a donating individual through 

15 such grant, shall not give any consideration to the income 

16 of the organ recipient.’’; and 

17 (3) in subsection (f), as so redesignated— 

18 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘sub19 section (c)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 

20 (d)(1)’’; and 

21 (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘sub22 section (c)(2)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 

23 (d)(2)’’. 


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1 SEC. 3. REMOVAL OF EXPECTATION OF PAYMENTS BY 

2 ORGAN RECIPIENTS. 

3 Section 377(e) of the Public Health Service Act (42 

4 U.S.C. 274f(e)), as redesignated by section 2, is amend5 ed— 

6 (1) in paragraph (1), by adding ‘‘or’’ at the 

7 end; 

8 (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘; or’’ and in9 serting a period; and 

10 (3) by striking paragraph (3). 

11 SEC. 4. ANNUAL REPORT. 

12 Section 377 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

13 U.S.C. 274f), as amended by sections 2 and 3, is further 

14 amended by adding at the end the following: 

15 ‘‘(h) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than December 31 

16 of each year, the Secretary shall— 

17 ‘‘(1) prepare, submit to the Congress, and make 

18 public a report on whether grants under this section 

19 provided adequate funding during the preceding fis20 cal year to reimburse all donating individuals par21 ticipating in the grant program under this section 

22 for all qualifying expenses; and 

23 ‘‘(2) include in each such report— 

24 ‘‘(A) the estimated number of all donating 

25 individuals participating in the grant program 

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1 bursement for all qualifying expenses during 

2 the preceding fiscal year; and 

3 ‘‘(B) the total amount of funding that is 

4 estimated to be necessary to fully reimburse all 

5 donating individuals participating in the grant 

6 program under this section for all qualifying ex7 penses.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives December 16, 

2024. 

Attest: KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 

Clerk. 


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