PRINTER'S NO. 923
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
180
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, ARGALL, YAW, BREWSTER AND BOSCOLA,
JUNE 7, 2017
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JUNE 7, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Title 20 (Decedents, Estates and Fiduciaries) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in anatomical gifts,
further providing for definitions, for persons who may
execute anatomical gift, for persons who may become donees
and purposes for which anatomical gifts may be made, for
manner of executing anatomical gifts, for amendment or
revocation of gift, for rights and duties at death, for
requests for anatomical gifts, for use of driver's license or
identification card to indicate organ or tissue donation, for
The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue
Donation Awareness Trust Fund contributions, for The Governor
Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness
Trust Fund, for confidentiality requirement and for
prohibited activities, providing for promotion of organ and
tissue donation, establishing the Donate Life PA Registry,
providing for facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent
whose death is under investigation, for collaboration among
departments and organ procurement organizations, for
information relative to organ and tissue donation, for
requirements for physician and nurse training relative to
organ and tissue donation and recovery, for uniformity of
application and construction, for relation to Electronic
Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act and for study
of organizations and repealing provisions relating to corneal
transplants.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definitions of "advisory committee," "bank or
storage facility," "decedent," "fund" and "organ procurement
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