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<meta><dc:title>118 HR 2544 ENR: To improve the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>2544</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="118">One Hundred Eighteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">A T T  H  E F  I  R  S  T S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-three</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To improve the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d92e62" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d92e72" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>ORGAN PROCUREMENT AND TRANSPLANTATION NETWORK.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xdd3a315f-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Section 372 of the Public Health Service Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s274">42 U.S.C. 274</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3a3160-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s2/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><chapeau>in subsection (a)—</chapeau><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3a5771-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s2/1/A" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>The Secretary shall by contract</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText><headingText class="smallCaps">In General—</headingText>The Secretary shall</quotedText>”;</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3a5772-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s2/1/B" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>establishment and</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>continued</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3a5773-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s2/1/C" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="C">(C) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the second and third sentences and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>The Secretary may award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements, as the Secretary determines appropriate, for purposes of carrying out this section.</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3a5774-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s2/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>in subsection (b), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(b)(1) The Organ Procurement</quotedText>” and all that follows through the end of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:<quotedContent><subsection class="indentDown1 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3a5775-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">“(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">Composition<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3a5776-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">“(1) </num><heading class="fontsize10 smallCaps">In general<inline class="noSmallCaps">.—</inline></heading><chapeau>The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network shall—</chapeau><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3a5777-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">“(A) </num><content>be operated through awards to public or private entities made by the Secretary that are distinct from the awards made to support the organization tasked with supporting the board of directors described in subparagraph (B); and”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent>.</content></paragraph></section>
<section id="d92e157" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s3" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="3">SEC. 3. </num><heading>TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xdd3d3da8-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Title III of the Public Health Service Act <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3d3da9-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s3/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>in section 371(b)(1)(H)(i)(III) (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s273/b/1/H/i/III">42 U.S.C. 273(b)(1)(H)(i)(III)</ref>), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>histocompatability</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>histocompatibility</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3d3daa-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s3/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>in section 374(c)(2) (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s274b/c/2">42 U.S.C. 274b(c)(2)</ref>), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>section 371 or 373</quotedText>” each place it appears and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>section 371, 372, or 373</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3d3dab-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s3/3" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><chapeau>in section 375 (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s274c">42 U.S.C. 274c</ref>)—</chapeau><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3d3dac-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s3/3/A" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the comma at the end of each of paragraphs (1) and (2) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> a semicolon;</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3d3dad-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s3/3/B" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>in paragraph (3), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>transplants, and</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>transplants; and</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3d3dae-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s3/3/C" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="C">(C) </num><content>in paragraph (4), by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> clauses (i) and (ii) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; and</content></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3d3daf-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s3/4" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><chapeau>in section 376 (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s274d">42 U.S.C. 274d</ref>)—</chapeau><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3d3db0-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s3/4/A" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>February 10 of 1991 and of each second year thereafter</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2 years after the date of enactment of the Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act and every second year thereafter</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3d3db1-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s3/4/B" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate.</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate,</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></section>
<section id="d92e264" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s4" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="4">SEC. 4. </num><heading>GAO REVIEW.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="xdd3d64c2-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall—</chapeau><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3d64c3-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s4/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>to the extent data are available, conduct a review of the historical financing of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network described in section 372 of the Public Health Service Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s274">42 U.S.C. 274</ref>), including the utilization of registration fees among entities that have previously been awarded contracts under such section 372; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="ydd3d64c4-d374-11ef-91a2-2f168636dc17" identifier="/us/bill/118/hr/2544/s4/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>submit to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report on the review under paragraph (1), including related recommendations, as applicable.</content></paragraph></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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