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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2544 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        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;
            (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.
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