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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 330 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, to conduct a study 
on existing efforts of hospitals with respect to electronic automated 
referrals for purposes of organ donation, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 9, 2025 
Mr. WITTMAN (for himself, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, and Mr. 
COSTA) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
acting through the Assistant Secretary for Planning and 
Evaluation, to conduct a study on existing efforts of 
hospitals with respect to electronic automated referrals 
for purposes of organ donation, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Organ Donation Refer-
ral Improvement Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. STUDYING ELECTRONIC AUTOMATED REFERRAL 
FOR ORGAN DONATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, acting through the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation (referred to in this Act as 
the ‘‘Secretary’’), shall conduct and complete a study on 
existing efforts of hospitals with respect to electronic auto-
mated referrals for purposes of organ donation. 
(b) STUDY COMPONENTS.—The study conducted 
under subsection (a) shall— 
(1) identify savings in staff time, variation in 
timeliness to determine eligibility for organ donation, 
as well as potential improvement over human inter-
action for the identification of potential organ do-
nors, if any, attained through the use of electronic 
automated referrals; 
(2) identify benefits, if any, in identifying po-
tential organ donors through the use of electronic 
medical records and standardized clinical criteria; 
(3) review the impact of such electronic auto-
mated referrals, without the need for manual report-
ing, on donation volumes; 
(4) assess published peer-reviewed clinical lit-
erature on such electronic automated referrals; 
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(5) review best practices for using such elec-
tronic automated referrals; 
(6) review information technology practices to 
ensure the secure transmission of information for 
purposes of such referrals; 
(7) develop recommendations to promote the 
use of such electronic automated referrals; and 
(8) identify what actions are needed to establish 
the use of such electronic automated referrals na-
tionwide. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means of the House of Representa-
tives and the Committee on Finance and the Committee 
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate 
a report on the results of the study conducted under sub-
section (a). 
(d) ELECTRONIC
AUTOMATED
REFERRAL
DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘electronic automated 
referral’’ means an electronic system that identifies poten-
tial deceased organ donors via clinical criteria in a pa-
tient’s electronic health record and automatically refers 
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such patients to the hospital’s collaborating organ pro-
curement organization. 
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