HB 2744
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-sixth Legislature
First Regular Session
HB2744: national marrow donor registry; ADOT
Sponsor: Representative Terech, LD 4
Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure
Overview
Directs the Director of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to establish specified
procedures relating to a national marrow donor registry (marrow registry).
History
Statute requires the director of ADOT (Director) to establish procedures:
1) To allow a person applying for a driver's license, permit or nonoperating identification
license to indicate during the application process their preference to be an organ or tissue
donor. An indication that the applicant wishes to be an organ or tissue donor is considered
a document of gift; and
2) For the release of information contained in the driving record of a person who indicates a
preference to be an organ or tissue donor if the release is for the purpose of being
registered in the donor registry (A.R.S. § 28-3006).
Bone marrow is defined as the soft material that fills human bone cavities (A.R.S. § 41-706).
Provisions
1. Requires the Director to establish procedures:
a) To allow a person applying for a driver's license, permit or nonoperating identification
license to indicate during application the person's preference to enroll in a marrow registry
as a bone marrow or blood stem cell donor; and
b) For the release of information contained in the driving record of a person who indicates
the person's preference to enroll in a marrow registry if the release is for the purpose of
being registered in the marrow registry. (Sec. 1)
2. Defines national marrow donor registry as a national registry of unrelated donors for patients
who need cellular therapy, including haploidentical and fully matched related donor
hematopoietic cell transplant, cord blood hematopoietic cell transplant and new cell and gene
therapies. (Sec. 1)
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note