HB 2744 Initials JB/LM Page 1 Caucus & COW ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fifty-sixth Legislature First Regular Session House: TI DP 9-2-0-1 HB2744: national marrow donor registry; ADOT Sponsor: Representative Terech, LD 4 Caucus & COW 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 the application process 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