H. R. 2544 

One Hundred Eighteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE FIRST SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-three 

An Act 

To improve the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and for other 

purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act’’. 

SEC. 2. ORGAN PROCUREMENT AND TRANSPLANTATION NETWORK. 

Section 372 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274) 

is amended— 

(1) in subsection (a)— 

(A) by striking ‘‘The Secretary shall by contract’’ and 

inserting ‘‘IN GENERAL—The Secretary shall’’; 

(B) by striking ‘‘establishment and’’ and inserting 

‘‘continued’’; and 

(C) by striking the second and third sentences and 

inserting ‘‘The Secretary may award grants, contracts, or 

cooperative agreements, as the Secretary determines appropriate, for purposes of carrying out this section.’’; and 

(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘(b)(1) The Organ Procurement’’ and all that follows through the end of subparagraph 

(A) of paragraph (1) and inserting the following: 

‘‘(b) COMPOSITION.— ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network shall— 

‘‘(A) be operated through awards to public or private 

entities made by the Secretary that are distinct from the 

awards made to support the organization tasked with supporting the board of directors described in subparagraph 

(B); and’’. 

SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS. 

Title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended— 

(1) in section 371(b)(1)(H)(i)(III) (42 U.S.C. 

273(b)(1)(H)(i)(III)), by striking ‘‘histocompatability’’ and 

inserting ‘‘histocompatibility’’; 

(2) in section 374(c)(2) (42 U.S.C. 274b(c)(2)), by striking 

‘‘section 371 or 373’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘section 

371, 372, or 373’’; 

(3) in section 375 (42 U.S.C. 274c)— 

(A) by striking the comma at the end of each of paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting a semicolon; 
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(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘transplants, and’’ 

and inserting ‘‘transplants; and’’; and 

(C) in paragraph (4), by redesignating clauses (i) and 

(ii) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; and 

(4) in section 376 (42 U.S.C. 274d)— 

(A) by striking ‘‘February 10 of 1991 and of each second 

year thereafter’’ and inserting ‘‘2 years after the date of 

enactment of the Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement 

and Transplantation Network Act and every second year 

thereafter’’; and 

(B) by striking ‘‘Committee on Labor and Human 

Resources of the Senate.’’ and inserting ‘‘Committee on 

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate,’’. 

SEC. 4. GAO REVIEW. 

Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this 

Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall— 

(1) to the extent data are available, conduct a review of 

the historical financing of the Organ Procurement and 

Transplantation Network described in section 372 of the Public 

Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274), including the utilization 

of registration fees among entities that have previously been 

awarded contracts under such section 372; and 

(2) submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, 

and Pensions and the Committee on Finance of the Senate 

and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House 

of Representatives a report on the review under paragraph 

(1), including related recommendations, as applicable. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.