Current status is Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

119th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 957

1. Short title
2. No consideration of income of organ recipient
3. Removal of expectation of payments by organ recipients
4. Annual report

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the "Honor Our Living Donors Act".

2. No consideration of income of organ recipient

Section 377 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274f) is amended—

(1) - by redesignating subsections (c) through (f) as subsections (d) through (g), respectively;

(2) No consideration of income of organ recipient - by inserting after subsection (b) the following:

(c) No consideration of income of organ recipient - The recipient of a grant under this section, in providing reimbursement to a donating individual through such grant, shall not give any consideration to the income of the organ recipient.

(3) - in subsection (f), as so redesignated—

(A) - in paragraph (1), by striking "subsection (c)(1)" and inserting "subsection (d)(1)"; and

(B) - in paragraph (2), by striking "subsection (c)(2)" and inserting "subsection (d)(2)".

3. Removal of expectation of payments by organ recipients

Section 377(e) of the Public Health Service Act (4224 U.S.C. 274f(e)), as redesignated by section 2(1), is amended—

(1) - in paragraph (1), by adding "or" at the end;

(2) - in paragraph (2), by striking "; or" and inserting a period; and

(3) - by striking paragraph (3).

4. Annual report

Section 377 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274f), as amended by sections 2 and 3, is amended by adding at the end the following:

(h) Annual report - Not later than December 31 of each year, the Secretary shall—

(1) - prepare, submit to Congress, and make public a report on whether grants under this section provided adequate funding during the preceding fiscal year to reimburse all donating individuals participating in the grant program under this section for all qualifying expenses; and

(2) - include in each such report—

(A) - the estimated number of all donating individuals participating in the grant program under this section who did not receive reimbursement for all qualifying expenses during the preceding fiscal year; and

(B) - the total amount of funding that is estimated to be necessary to fully reimburse donating individuals participating in the grant program under this section for all qualifying expenses.

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