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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 957 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Public Health Service Act to eliminate consideration of the |
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| 6 | 6 | | income of organ recipients in providing reimbursement of expenses to |
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| 7 | 7 | | donating individuals, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | MARCH11 (legislative day, MARCH10), 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. L |
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| 11 | 11 | | UJA´N(for himself and Mr. BOOZMAN) introduced the following bill; |
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| 12 | 12 | | which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Edu- |
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| 13 | 13 | | cation, Labor, and Pensions |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend the Public Health Service Act to eliminate consid- |
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| 16 | 16 | | eration of the income of organ recipients in providing |
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| 17 | 17 | | reimbursement of expenses to donating individuals, and |
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| 18 | 18 | | for other purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Honor Our Living Do-4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | nors Act’’. 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | SEC. 2. NO CONSIDERATION OF INCOME OF ORGAN RECIPI-1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | ENT. 2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Section 377 of the Public Health Service Act (42 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | U.S.C. 274f) is amended— 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) by redesignating subsections (c) through (f) 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | as subsections (d) through (g), respectively; 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | lowing: 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ‘‘(c) N |
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| 36 | 36 | | OCONSIDERATION OFINCOME OFORGANRE-9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | CIPIENT.—The recipient of a grant under this section, in 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | providing reimbursement to a donating individual through 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | such grant, shall not give any consideration to the income 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | of the organ recipient.’’; and 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (3) in subsection (f), as so redesignated— 14 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘sub-15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | section (c)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 16 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (d)(1)’’; and 17 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘sub-18 |
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| 46 | 46 | | section (c)(2)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 19 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (d)(2)’’. 20 |
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| 48 | 48 | | SEC. 3. REMOVAL OF EXPECTATION OF PAYMENTS BY 21 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ORGAN RECIPIENTS. 22 |
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| 50 | 50 | | Section 377(e) of the Public Health Service Act 23 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (4224 U.S.C. 274f(e)), as redesignated by section 2(1), 24 |
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| 52 | 52 | | is amended— 25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (1) in paragraph (1), by adding ‘‘or’’ at the 1 |
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| 57 | 57 | | end; 2 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘; or’’ and in-3 |
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| 59 | 59 | | serting a period; and 4 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (3) by striking paragraph (3). 5 |
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| 61 | 61 | | SEC. 4. ANNUAL REPORT. 6 |
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| 62 | 62 | | Section 377 of the Public Health Service Act (42 7 |
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| 63 | 63 | | U.S.C. 274f), as amended by sections 2 and 3, is amended 8 |
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| 64 | 64 | | by adding at the end the following: 9 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(h) A |
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| 66 | 66 | | NNUALREPORT.—Not later than December 31 10 |
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| 67 | 67 | | of each year, the Secretary shall— 11 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(1) prepare, submit to Congress, and make 12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | public a report on whether grants under this section 13 |
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| 70 | 70 | | provided adequate funding during the preceding fis-14 |
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| 71 | 71 | | cal year to reimburse all donating individuals par-15 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ticipating in the grant program under this section 16 |
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| 73 | 73 | | for all qualifying expenses; and 17 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(2) include in each such report— 18 |
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| 75 | 75 | | ‘‘(A) the estimated number of all donating 19 |
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| 76 | 76 | | individuals participating in the grant program 20 |
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| 77 | 77 | | under this section who did not receive reim-21 |
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| 78 | 78 | | bursement for all qualifying expenses during 22 |
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| 79 | 79 | | the preceding fiscal year; and 23 |
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| 80 | 80 | | ‘‘(B) the total amount of funding that is 24 |
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| 81 | 81 | | estimated to be necessary to fully reimburse do-25 |
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| 85 | 85 | | nating individuals participating in the grant 1 |
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| 86 | 86 | | program under this section for all qualifying ex-2 |
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| 87 | 87 | | penses.’’. 3 |
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