In the Senate of the United States,
July 9, 2007.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 710) entitled ‘‘An Act to amend the National
Organ Transplant Act to provide that criminal penalties do
not apply to paired donations of human kidneys, and for
other purposes.’’, do pass with the following
AMENDMENT:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
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: ‘‘For purposes of this section, human organ
paired donation and similar practices, as defined by
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the Secretary, shall not be considered to involve the
transfer of a human organ for valuable consider-
ation.’’; 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 in
a circumstance in which each of the following applies:
‘‘(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 pa-
tient.
‘‘(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
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 donor for the second patient, and the sec-
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ond 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 transferred
with respect to the human organs referred to in
such subparagraph.’’.
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 appropriate com-
mittees of Congress a report that details the progress made
towards understanding the long-term health effects of living
organ donation.
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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 promul-
gated under that Act).
Attest:
Secretary.
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