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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2544 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 26, 2023 

Received 

AN ACT 

To improve the Organ Procurement and Transplantation 

Network, 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 ‘‘Securing the U.S. 

3 Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. ORGAN PROCUREMENT AND TRANSPLANTATION 

5 NETWORK. 

6 Section 372 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

7 U.S.C. 274) is amended— 

8 (1) in subsection (a)— 

9 (A) by striking ‘‘The Secretary shall by 

10 contract’’ and inserting ‘‘IN GENERAL—The 

11 Secretary shall’’; 

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

13 inserting ‘‘continued’’; and 

14 (C) by striking the second and third sen15 tences and inserting ‘‘The Secretary may award 

16 grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements, as 

17 the Secretary determines appropriate, for pur18 poses of carrying out this section.’’; and 

19 (2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘(b)(1) The 

20 Organ Procurement’’ and all that follows through 

21 the end of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) and 

22 inserting the following: 

23 ‘‘(b) COMPOSITION.— 

24 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Organ Procurement 

25 and Transplantation Network shall— 


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1 ‘‘(A) be operated through awards to public 

2 or private entities made by the Secretary that 

3 are distinct from the awards made to support 

4 the organization tasked with supporting the 

5 board of directors described in subparagraph 

6 (B); and’’. 

7 SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS. 

8 Title III of the Public Health Service Act is amend9 ed— 

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

11 273(b)(1)(H)(i)(III)), by striking 

12 ‘‘histocompatability’’ and inserting 

13 ‘‘histocompatibility’’; 

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

15 by striking ‘‘section 371 or 373’’ each place it ap16 pears and inserting ‘‘section 371, 372, or 373’’; 

17 (3) in section 375 (42 U.S.C. 274c)— 

18 (A) by striking the comma at the end of 

19 each of paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting a 

20 semicolon; 

21 (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘trans22 plants, and’’ and inserting ‘‘transplants; and’’; 

23 and 


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1 (C) in paragraph (4), by redesignating 

2 clauses (i) and (ii) as subparagraphs (A) and 

3 (B), respectively; and 

4 (4) in section 376 (42 U.S.C. 274d)— 

5 (A) by striking ‘‘February 10 of 1991 and 

6 of each second year thereafter’’ and inserting 

7 ‘‘2 years after the date of enactment of the Se8 curing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Trans9 plantation Network Act and every second year 

10 thereafter’’; and 

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

12 Human Resources of the Senate.’’ and inserting 

13 ‘‘Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 

14 Pensions of the Senate,’’. 

15 SEC. 4. GAO REVIEW. 

16 Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment 

17 of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 

18 shall— 

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

20 review of the historical financing of the Organ Pro21 curement and Transplantation Network described in 

22 section 372 of the Public Health Service Act (42 

23 U.S.C. 274), including the utilization of registration 

24 fees among entities that have previously been award25 ed contracts under such section 372; and 


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1 (2) submit to the Committee on Health, Edu2 cation, Labor, and Pensions and the Committee on 

3 Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Energy 

4 and Commerce of the House of Representatives a re5 port on the review under paragraph (1), including 

6 related recommendations, as applicable. 

Passed the House of Representatives July 25, 2023. 

Attest: KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 

Clerk. 


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