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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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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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 sen-
tences and inserting ‘‘The Secretary may award 
grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements, as 
the Secretary determines appropriate, for pur-
poses 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— 
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‘‘(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 amend-
ed— 
(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 ap-
pears 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 ‘‘trans-
plants, and’’ and inserting ‘‘transplants; and’’; 
and 
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(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 Se-
curing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Trans-
plantation 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 Pro-
curement 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 award-
ed contracts under such section 372; and 
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(2) submit to the Committee on Health, Edu-
cation, Labor, and Pensions and the Committee on 
Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce of the House of Representatives a re-
port on the review under paragraph (1), including 
related recommendations, as applicable. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 25, 2023. 
Attest: 
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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