IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 837 
Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to 
H.R. 710, with amendments. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 4, 2007 
Mr. INSLEE (for himself and Mr. DEAL of Georgia) submitted the following 
resolution; which was considered and agreed to 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate 
amendment to H.R. 710, with amendments. 
Resolved, That, upon the adoption of this resolution, the 
House shall be considered to have taken from the Speaker’s 
table the bill, H.R. 710, with the Senate amendment thereto, 
and to have concurred in the Senate amendment with the fol-
lowing amendments: 
In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the 
amendment of the Senate to the text of the bill, insert the 
following: 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Charlie W. Norwood 
Living Organ Donation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE NATIONAL ORGAN TRANS-
PLANT ACT. 
Section 301 of the National Organ Transplant Act 
(42 U.S.C. 274e) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘The preceding sentence does not apply 
with respect to human organ paired donation.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(4) The term ‘human organ paired donation’ 
means the donation and receipt of human organs 
under the following circumstances: 
‘‘(A) An individual (referred to in this 
paragraph as the ‘first donor’) desires to make 
a living donation of a human organ specifically 
to a particular patient (referred to in this para-
graph as the ‘first patient’), but such donor is 
biologically incompatible as a donor for such 
patient. 
‘‘(B) A second individual (referred to in 
this paragraph as the ‘second donor’) desires to 
make a living donation of a human organ spe-
cifically to a second particular patient (referred 
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to in this paragraph as the ‘second patient’), 
but such donor is biologically incompatible as a 
donor for such patient. 
‘‘(C) Subject to subparagraph (D), the 
first donor is biologically compatible as a donor 
of a human organ for the second patient, and 
the second donor is biologically compatible as a 
donor of a human organ for the first patient. 
‘‘(D) If there is any additional donor-pa-
tient pair as described in subparagraph (A) or 
(B), each donor in the group of donor-patient 
pairs is biologically compatible as a donor of a 
human organ for a patient in such group. 
‘‘(E) All donors and patients in the group 
of donor-patient pairs (whether 2 pairs or more 
than 2 pairs) enter into a single agreement to 
donate and receive such human organs, respec-
tively, according to such biological compatibility 
in the group. 
‘‘(F) Other than as described in subpara-
graph (E), no valuable consideration is know-
ingly acquired, received, or otherwise trans-
ferred with respect to the human organs re-
ferred to in such subparagraph.’’. 
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SEC. 3. REPORT. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall submit to the appro-
priate committees of Congress a report that details the 
progress made towards understanding the long-term 
health effects of living organ donation. 
SEC. 4. NO IMPACT ON SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND. 
Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this 
Act) shall be construed to alter or amend the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) (or any regulation pro-
mulgated under that Act). 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘An Act to amend the 
National Organ Transplant Act to provide that criminal 
penalties do not apply to human organ paired donation, 
and for other purposes.’’. 
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