Title: Respecting the Rights of Organ Donor Recipients Act of 2022
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Respecting the Rights of Organ Donor Recipients Act of 2022
This bill prohibits limiting access to organ transplants based on an individual's COVID-19 vaccination status.
Specifically, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network may not (1) request an individual's COVID-19 vaccination status when considering whether to place the individual on an organ transplant waitlist, or (2) require the vaccination in order for an individual to receive an organ transplant. This network is a public-private partnership that links organizations (e.g., transplantation centers and laboratories) in the organ donation and transplantation system.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6540 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6540

  To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the 
   Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network from requesting the 
 vaccination status of an individual with respect to COVID-19 for the 
 national list of individuals who need organs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2022

Mr. DesJarlais introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the 
   Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network from requesting the 
 vaccination status of an individual with respect to COVID-19 for the 
 national list of individuals who need organs, 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 ``Respecting the Rights of Organ Donor 
Recipients Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION FROM REQUESTING THE VACCINATION STATUS OF ORGAN 
              RECIPIENTS WITH RESPECT TO COVID-19.

    (a) In General.--Section 372(b) of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 274(b)) is amended by inserting after paragraph (3) the 
following:
            ``(4) Prohibition.--Members of the Organ Procurement and 
        Transplantation Network shall not request the vaccination 
        status of an individual with respect to the virus that causes 
        COVID-19--
                    ``(A) when considering an individual for the 
                national list of individuals who need organs under 
                paragraph (2)(A)(i); or
                    ``(B) as a requirement for receiving an organ 
                transplant under any criteria, standards, or 
                regulations developed pursuant to this subsection.''.
    (b) Technical Amendment.--Section 372(b)(2) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274(b)(2)) is amended in the margin by moving 
subparagraphs (M), (N), and (O) 2 ems to the left.
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