PRINTER'S NO. 312
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
398
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY WHITE, YAW, BREWSTER, BLAKE, VULAKOVICH, SMITH,
COSTA, BOSCOLA, SCARNATI AND BROWNE, FEBRUARY 4, 2015
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 4, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in express anatomical
gifts, further providing for use of driver's license or
identification card to indicate organ or tissue donation.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 8619(a) of Title 20 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 8619. Use of driver's license or identification card to
indicate organ or tissue donation.
(a) General rule.--[Beginning as soon as practicable, but no
later than January 1, 1995, or one year following the effective
date of this section, whichever is later, the] The Department of
Transportation shall redesign the driver's license and
identification card application system to process requests for
information regarding consent of the individual to organ or
tissue donation. The following question shall be asked[:] on
both the application for a driver's license or identification
card and on the organ donor designation at a photo center:
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Pennsylvania strongly supports organ and tissue donation
because of its life-saving and life-enhancing
opportunities.
Do you wish to have the organ donor designation printed
on your driver's license?
Only an affirmative response of an individual shall be noted on
the front of the driver's license or identification card and
shall clearly indicate the individual's intent to donate his
organs or tissue. A notation on an individual's driver's license
or identification card that he intends to donate his organs or
tissue is deemed sufficient to satisfy all requirements for
consent to organ or tissue donation.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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