Bill Text: NH HB587 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relative to organ donation on a driver's license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-09-18 - Veto Sustained 09/18/2019: Regular Calendar 224-156 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote House Journal 21 P. 46 [HB587 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2019-HB587-Amended.html

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HB 587 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

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HOUSE BILL 587

 

AN ACT relative to organ donation on a driver's license.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Torosian, Rock. 14; Rep. Wallace, Rock. 33; Rep. Janigian, Rock. 8; Rep. Abramson, Rock. 20; Rep. Aldrich, Belk. 2

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill clarifies that a person's decision to donate his or her own body, organ, or tissue upon death is not subject to amendment or revocation after such person's death.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT relative to organ donation on a driver's license.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; Honoring an Individual's Decision to Donate.  Amend RSA 291-A:23 to read as follows:

291-A:23  Honoring an Individual's Decision to Donate.  A person's decision to make a donation of that person's own body, organ, or tissue after death pursuant to RSA 291-A:4, I shall be honored.  [In the absence of a revocation or amendment,]  Such a decision may only be revoked or amended as allowed in RSA 291-A:6, RSA 291-A:8, VII, or RSA 291-A:14, VI.  Health care providers and procurement organizations shall act in accordance with the donor's decision and [may take appropriate actions] shall make reasonable efforts to effect the anatomical gift.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.