[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2495 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2495

 To establish a congressional commemorative medal for organ and tissue 
                       donors and their families.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            October 3 (legislative day, September 12), 1994

  Mr. Murkowski (for himself, Mr. Bond, Mr. Chafee, Mr. Cochran, Mr. 
   Coverdell, Mr. Craig, Mr. D'Amato, Mr. DeConcini, Mr. Dorgan, Mr. 
   Durenburger, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Gorton, Mr. Inouye, Mr. Hatch, Mr. 
 Helms, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Levin, 
   Mr. Lugar, Mr. Mack, Mr. McCain, Ms. Mosley-Braun, Mr. Robb, Mr. 
   Rockefeller, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Simon, Mr. Specter, Mr. Stevens, Mr. 
  Thurmond, and Mr. Wofford) introduced the following bill; which was 
read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish a congressional commemorative medal for organ and tissue 
                       donors and their families.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Gift of Life Congressional Medal Act 
of 1994''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL.

    The Secretary of the Treasury shall design and strike a bronze 
medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions, to be 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, to commemorate organ and 
tissue donors and their families.

SEC. 3. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Any organ donor, tissue donor, or the family of 
any organ or tissue donor, shall be eligible for a medal described in 
section 2.
    (b) Documentation.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
shall--
            (1) establish an application procedure requiring an 
        individual, their family, or an organ or tissue procurement 
        agency acting on behalf of an individual or their family, to 
        submit to the Secretary documentation supporting the 
        eligibility of that individual or their family for receipt of a 
        medal described in section 2; and
            (2) determine, through the documentation provided, and, if 
        necessary, independent investigation, whether the individual or 
        family is eligible to receive a medal described in section 2.

SEC. 4. PRESENTATION.

    (a) Delivery to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.--The 
Secretary of the Treasury shall deliver medals struck pursuant to this 
Act to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
    (b) Delivery to Eligible Recipients.--The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall arrange for the presentation, through a qualified 
organ procurement organization, as described in section 371(b)(1) of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 273(b)(1)), of medals struck 
pursuant to this Act to individuals or families that, in accordance 
with section 3, the Secretary has determined are eligible to receive 
medals under this Act.
    (c) Limitation.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), only 
        1 medal may be presented to a family under subsection (b).
            (2) Exception.--In the case of a family in which more than 
        1 member is an organ or tissue donor, the Secretary of Health 
        and Human Services may present 1 medal to each such organ or 
        tissue donor.

SEC. 5. DUPLICATE MEDALS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Treasury may strike and sell 
duplicates of the medal described in section 2 to any recipient of a 
medal under section 4(b), under such regulations as the Secretary of 
the Treasury may issue.
    (b) Limitation.--The sale price of a duplicate medal shall be 
sufficient to cover the cost of such duplicates.

SEC. 6. NATIONAL MEDALS.

    The medals struck pursuant to this Act are national medals for 
purposes of section 5111 of title 31, United States Code.

SEC. 7. GENERAL WAIVER OF PROCUREMENT REGULATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), no provision 
of law governing procurement or public contracts shall be applicable to 
the procurement of goods or services necessary for carrying out the 
provisions of this Act.
    (b) Equal Employment Opportunity.--Subsection (a) shall not relieve 
any person entering into a contract under the authority of this Act 
from complying with any law relating to equal employment opportunity.

SEC. 8. SOLICITATION OF DONATIONS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Treasury may enter into an 
agreement with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network 
established under section 372 of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 274) to solicit donated funds to offset expenditures relating to 
the issuance of medals authorized under this Act.
    (b) Payment of Funds.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), all 
        funds received by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation 
        Network under subsection (a) shall be promptly paid by the 
        Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to the Secretary 
        of the Treasury.
            (2) Limitation.--Not more than 5 percent of any funds 
        received under subsection (a) shall be used to pay 
        administrative costs incurred by the Organ Procurement and 
        Transplantation Network as a result of an agreement established 
        under this section.
    (c) Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law--
            (1) all amounts received by the Secretary of the Treasury 
        under subsection (b)(1) shall be deposited in the Numismatic 
        Public Enterprise Fund, as described in section 5134 of title 
        31, United States Code; and
            (2) the Secretary of the Treasury shall charge such fund 
        with all expenditures relating to the issuance of medals 
        authorized under this Act.
    (d) No Net Cost to the Government.--The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall take all actions necessary to ensure that the issuance of medals 
authorized under section 2 results in no net cost to the Government.

SEC. 9. ORGAN AND TISSUE DEFINED.

    For purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``organ'' means the human kidney, liver, 
        heart, lung, pancreas, and any other human organ (other than 
        corneas and eyes) specified by regulation of the Secretary of 
        Health and Human Services; and
            (2) the term ``tissue'' means human tissues, including 
        corneas, eyes, bone marrow, tendons, veins, skin, and heart-
        valves.
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